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MAN'S LIFE OF PURPOSE 



MAN'S LIFE OF PUKPOSE 



By the Authors of 
"Thought for Help" and "Will Higher of God" 

WILLIAM C. COMSTOCK 

Amanuensis 
WITH A FOREWORD BY 

REV. JOSEPH A. MILBURN 

Pastor First Congregational Church, Chicago 




RICHARD G. BADGER 

BOSTON 



Copyright, 1915, by William C. Comstock 

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CONTENTS 



PAGE 

Foreword v 

The Writer's Preface xix 

Dr. Coulter's Preface xlv 

I Work of Man 3 

II Work of Life in Man 21 

III Man the Life Immortal 51 

IV Work That Helps Life ....... 75 

V Free Will of Life Personal 91 

VI Man, the Life of Free Purpose . . . .113 

VII Will for Life Worthy 141 

VIII Man the Thinking Life 155 

IX Worth of Life in Man 161 

X Wise Life Becomes through God's Teaching 197 

XI Helpful Thought 201 

XII Final Word 205 



FOREWORD 



The message that comes to us through this vol- 
ume commands our attention because of the dig- 
nity of the gospel it embodies, and also because of 
the unusual process of authorship. Taken in its 
scope, I know of no utterance that in its meta- 
physics and morals is more exalting and salubrious 
than the redemptive word that comes to us through 
this writer. There are many notes of magnitude 
and hopefulness being struck in our latter-day ethi- 
cal philosophies, but so many of them are deficient 
in the fundamental requirement of any really illu- 
minative system of thought — the requirement of 
sanity. 

It is easy and pleasant to begin with a broad and 
sweeping hypothesis, such as that God is infinite 
being — infinite in truth and in love, and infinite 
quantitatively, to the point of exclusion of all other 
being — and from this hypothesis deduce a universe 
whose sky is without a shadow, whose rhythm is 
without a breach. Christian Science, for instance, 
is a religion quite logical and splendidly optimistic. 
Grant its premise and its deductions are just as 
rigid in their inevitableness as the deduction of pa- 

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pal infallibility from the postulate of an infallible 
council of the church. But any religion that is go- 
ing to appeal to the critical spirit of thinking people 
must have a postulate that covers the facts of life 
and the facts of love, so far as they are attunable 
to the structure of the human mind and conform- 
able to the deliverances of the senses as they operate 
upon this earth plane. 

When a man tells us that there is only one sub- 
stance at the root of things, he may be telling us 
that which is true, but which is not true for us, be- 
cause we are so constituted that the world as it 
impinges upon our consciousness divides itself into 
two factors of being — the one spiritual and the 
other material. When we turn our thoughts within, 
we are conscious of spiritual being. When we touch 
the world by the organ of vision, or by the organ of 
hearing, or by the specific contacts of our muscles, 
we are conscious of a world that is different in its 
quality from the spiritual world that we know 
through introvision ; we are conscious of a world of 
matter, a world of quantity, of dimensions, of spa- 
tial limitations, of resistance and ponderosity. 
Hence, the philosophies that are founded on a pure 
unity of substance, and that predicate infinite vir- 
tues and all the excellences and benevolences of that 
substance, fail before the crucial facts of life. They 
have a certain symmetry, a certain beauty, when 



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we contemplate them in the closet, away from the 
stern realities of suffering, pain, the tragedies of 
the heart, and the great, bitter, searching mystery 
of death ; but when we ask them to confront the ac- 
tual problems that we have to meet in the plain, 
prosaic affairs of life, — the problems of the home, 
of business, of the larger interests of the world — 
when we ask them to confront the dark and bewil- 
dering experiences that are the portion of every 
spirit upon this earth plane at some time in its evo- 
lution and career, these beautiful optimisms prove 
inadequate. They will not construe into the actu- 
alities, into our sorrows, into our bereavements, into 
the bitter catastrophes that await us at every turn. 

The first condition, then, of any philosophy 
should not be its promise of a world that we all 
yearn for in our hearts, but that we can nowhere 
find in the facts of existence. It should not promise 
us a world without pain. It should concede the pain 
and give us fortitude to bear it. It should not 
promise us a world without the presence of death. 
It should concede the phenomenon of death and 
transfigure it with an eternal dignity and beauty. 
It should not promise us a world that is all strewn 
with flowers. It should admit the wilderness and 
strive, with heroic effort, to turn the wilderness 
into a garden — to make the whole world, its rough 
places, smooth by the fortitude of the human spirit 



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and the coercion of the human will. One of the 
noble things about the philosophy of this volume is 
just this truthfulness. It preaches a noble op- 
timism, but not at the expense of sanity. It admits 
that somewhere in the scheme of things there is a 
break. It puts into academic terms the deliver- 
ances that come to the mind of the plain man as he 
meditates upon life and reflects upon the world. It 
affirms the reality of spirit and the reality of mat- 
ter. It affirms a creating spirit and a created 
world. It affirms original being, infinite in power, 
in wisdom and in love; and also affirms a finite 
world of creation — a composite of thought and of 
sense — a synthesis of spirit and of matter. 

Now, this world of dual being has its difficulties. 
As man is constituted, he has no organ that re- 
veals, that makes intelligible to him the process 
whereby matter emerges out of spirit, or spirit 
emerges out of matter. The genesis of matter from 
spirit is just as unthinkable as the genesis of spirit 
from matter. But any philosophy that begins with 
dual substances of spirit and matter has this ad- 
vantage over a system that begins with sheer unity 
of being — it takes into consideration the actualities 
of life and saves the human mind from the bitterest 
of all tragedies, the tragedy of believing that a vast 
part of life is an illusion, and that man is, by the 
very constitution of the universe, immersed in an 



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organized system of lies. 

If I were to choose a philosophy for my guidance 
in life and in conduct, the first requirement of that 
philosophy would be that it must save the truth of 
the great power — not ourselves — out of which man, 
and the world in which man lives, have emerged. 
The teachings of this book save this truth. They 
admit, what everyone who thinks must admit, that 
there is a break in the scheme of things ; but I know 
of no more beautiful solvent for the problems that 
confront the human spirit in its earthly march than 
is to be found in the large and fine wisdom of this 
volume. It brings to us, first of all, the conception 
of a gloriously efficient God — a God in love with 
life, with goodness and with beauty; a God infi- 
nitely fecund, who gives birth to worlds in order 
that he may have objects upon which to bestow 
his bountiful light and love; a God who creates, 
out of an infinite fatherhood, myriads of children 
upon whom He may lavish His tenderness, and 
whom He may educate, through the disciplines of 
incarnations and reincarnations, into the beauty 
and the splendour of His own perfections. It gives 
us a God who, Himself free, confers the freedom 
in which He, Himself, exults upon His children. 
And the great and noble teaching of this book is 
that man must inevitably work on to a gloriously 
consummated salvation — free to come and go as 



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he pleases — free to adjust himself to the will of 
the Eternal, or to rebel against the will of the Eter- 
nal — but bound, by the vision and the penalty that 
come through his freedom, at last to conform him- 
self, in a perfect act of submission, to the imperious 
will of God. 

We are living in a day of magnitudes. We are 
learning to think in a large way about life and na- 
tionality, and duty, and love, and religion. The 
human race is emerging, step by step, out of those 
belittling provincialisms that have been even more 
an obstacle in the way of its development than the 
gross vices that have dogged its steps since the very 
birth of its being upon this earth. 

Man has been petty in his most glorious virtue, 
the virtue of love, so that Love's page in the Book 
of Life is touched everywhere with darkness, malig- 
nity, selfishness and tragedy. He has been petty 
in his nationalism, and it has made him insular, im- 
possible, intolerant, vulgar and militant. He has 
been petty in his religion, petty in his conception 
of God, petty in his conception of salvation, petty 
in his Christology; and the result of his meagre 
thinking has been strife, division, schism and a har- 
vest of all the bestialities and vices within that 
world — the world of the spirit — where only the per- 
fections should live and thrive and prosper. 

But happily, step by step and line by line, the 



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world is learning to think and to feel in a large 
way. Man is beginning to realize that his God is 
universal ; that He is not the God of the Jews, or the 
God of the Greeks, or the God of the Germans, or 
the God of the English, or the God of the Slav or 
the Saxon; but that He is the God of the planet 
earth, the God of the whole world — a God who 
reigns supreme in the vast scheme and enterprise 
of this universe. And not only is He vast in the 
scope of His being, but we are beginning to learn 
that He is vast also in the sweep and the scope of 
His redemptive purpose, in the range and the reach 
of His infinite love. 

I know of no modern book that works out with 
a more scrupulous logic the marriage of divine jus- 
tice with divine mercy than this book, which the 
author tells us is not his creation, but the utterance, 
through him as a transmissive force, of a wisdom 
higher than his own. He voices, quite within the 
operation of his own consciousness, a message that 
comes to him from higher intelligences; and this 
message has not only the probative value that lies 
in the high worth of the moral character of the 
amanuensis, but the infallible probative value that 
inheres in the magnitude and the dignity of truth 
itself. 

There are those who, by virtue of an intense con- 
servatism of mind and a slavish proneness to tra- 



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dition, may rebel against certain positions taken 
in this volume. Some may waft it out of the do- 
main of credible literature because it involves a 
faith in the higher intelligences acting in and 
through the mind of man, in the way of suggestion 
or of vision. It is peculiarly repugnant to certain 
types of mind to think of the spirits that have been 
emancipated by the thaumaturgy of Death as being 
in touch with the present scheme of things. They 
seem to think that the spirits of the immortals would 
be defiled by coming into conjunction with life 
upon this material plane. They believe in the im- 
mortality of the soul : they believe in some mystical 
world in which the immortal spirits live and move 
and have their being; but it seems to them dishon- 
ouring to think of the eternities as interwoven with 
our mental processes and with our terrene affairs. 
But why so? Why this reluctance to believe that 
the two worlds are beautifully and gloriously inter- 
woven? Why should we put away from us as a 
thing incredible the possibility that the mother who 
has loved us, the father who has cared for us, the 
brother, or the sister, who has grown up with us in 
the same home, and with whom our ver}^ beings are 
interlaced by a thousand sweet and tender expe- 
riences — why is it incredible that they, if they should 
make the journey into the Infinite before us, should 
return to aid us with their larger wisdom, and to 



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uphold us with their greater strength? It is logi- 
cal that they should come to enlighten us, to help 
us, to bless us, to bring to us somewhat of their 
celestial vision, and to beautify us somewhat with 
their celestial loveliness. Spiritism, to my mind, is 
an inevitable corollary of any faith in immortality; 
and when man ceases to believe that the spirits of 
the redeemed touch us and aid us, at that very 
moment — although he knows it not — he has vir- 
tually ceased to believe in the immortality of his 
own being, and in the immortality of those he loves. 

Spiritism is not, as many think, a modern super- 
stition. It is a faith almost coeval with man's spirit- 
ual history. It finds expression, with varying de- 
grees of intensity, in all the great religions of the 
world. It is of the very genius and essence of 
Christianity. The religion that centers in the life 
and personality of the Jesus of history begins with 
the annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist 
and ends with the visions and the voices of St. John, 
the author of the book of Revelation. 

Jesus is the supreme psychic of the world. He 
was clairvoyant. He was clairaudient. He prac- 
ticed the art of levitation when he walked upon the 
sea of Galilee. He revealed the power of demateri- 
alization in one of the great, outstanding miracles 
of the New Testament, the miracle of the Transfig- 
uration. 



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And is it not the creed of the Church that the 
Bible is worthy of man's faith because it has its 
origin in the eternities? The prophets spake as they 
were moved by the Holy Ghost ; and the unbroken 
and hitherto unimpeached tradition of the Church 
commands us to believe that the writers of the New 
Testament were inspired by higher intelligences. 
Take away the psychic element — the element of the 
supersensual and the miraculous — from the New 
Testament, and you contract measurably the di- 
mensions of the Jesus of history, and you bereave 
the religion founded by Him of one of its most ap- 
pealing notes — the note of the marvelous, of forces 
that transcend our understanding, and which yet 
speak to the deepest part of our nature because 
of their glorious wonder fulness. 

Others, again, will question the doctrine of rein- 
carnation that appears and reappears at many 
points in this book. But why is not reincarnation 
a perfectly tenable philosophy of man's develop- 
ment? He is here with a big problem to solve, with 
a vast world to know; and he has not time, unless 
he is a highly evolved soul, to learn its vast lessons 
of wisdom and of righteousness: and why is it not 
perfectly feasible that he should come back again 
and yet again, until he learns the deepest wisdom 
that the spirit of truth itself has to teach him, and 
that can only be taught in certain phases of his de- 



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velopment through earth experiences ? 

I believe, myself, in ceaseless remanifestations of 
the eternal spirit of man here on this planet, and on 
other planets. Just as he stays in one form at school 
until he is ready, by virtue of his enlarged knowl- 
edge, to ascend to a higher form, so he must "go 
to school" in one world and remanifest again and 
again, until he has the vision that will prepare him. 
for the culture that will be his portion in the world 
next higher. 

The fairest, sweetest teacher the world has ever 
known — the Jesus of history — said: "In my 
Father's house are many mansions." When our 
Lord spoke, His teachings were founded on facts. 
He actually meant what He said when He spoke 
of the Father's house and of the mansions in the 
Father's house. What is the house? The house is 
the whole universe, and the mansions are these won- 
derful worlds that you and I see on a clear night 
— myriads upon myriads of them — in the great ex- 
panse of the sky. These all have been, or will be, 
our habitations, one by one, until we have learned 
the lesson that each in turn has to give to us — ris- 
ing from mansion to mansion, each mansion of our 
inheritance increasing in beauty as we increase in 
the just and rightful performance of our task; 
each mansion growing in splendour with the grow- 
ing splendour of our spirit. 



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We are living in an age of wonders — an age that 
is learning the mastery of the most subtle energies 
of nature. We have conquered space, so that we 
can send thought flying from continent to conti- 
nent in the twinkling of an eye. We can transmit 
ideas through the medium afforded us by nature — 
through the transmissive power of the atmosphere, 
without the aid of anv artificial contrivance of man. 

ml 

We can make the body of lighter density sustain 
the body of heavier density. We can float iron in 
water, and we can so command the air as to force it 
to sustain solid matter. And yet we are just on 
the verge of the wonders of the world. Earth and 
air have secrets to confide to the expanding intelli- 
gence of humanity of which we do not dream to-day. 
Why, then, should we shrink in fear and in doubt 
before the wonders of the psychic world, before the 
marvels of which this treatise affirms itself to be 
the embodiment? Why should we turn, with a 
cynical smile upon our lips, from the proofs 
whereby so many able and earnest writers are seek- 
ing to establish the reality of the phenomena of au- 
tomatic writing, of telepathic communications, of 
the apparitions of the living and the dead, of in- 
dependent voices, of trance mediumship, and of the 
different and various forms and modes of spirit- 
ualism? 

It seems to me that these new wonders of the 



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psychic world that are engaging the thought of 
the most spiritual thinkers of the day will do as 
much for the moral exaltation of humanity as mod- 
ern inventions have for its physical well-being and 
comfort. 

We should all strive, with a great passion and 
reverence in our heart, to develop the psychic con- 
sciousness; for with the development of this con- 
sciousness within us, we shall live the abundant life, 
which the greatest of all seers emphasized as the 
central virtue of his religion. 

Life will be glorious when we realize that all of 
God's universe is quivering with intelligence ; when 
we believe that all the worlds are aflame with light 
and with love; when we believe that the universe 
is a vast hierarchy of spiritual forces ; when we be- 
lieve that we are living in a great, shoreless ocean 
of conscious being, whose supreme law is the law 
of noblesse oblige — that lays an imperative obliga- 
tion upon strength to bless and to serve, upon wis- 
dom to enlighten, and upon love to succor and re- 
deem. 

I have said in a previous foreword that my 
knowledge of the writer of this treatise is intimate, 
and his friendship is one of the sweet privileges of 
my life. I know him to be a man of the most de- 
liberate judgment in all matters that pertain to 
the affairs of this world. His temperament is hos- 



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tile to all fugitive enthusiasms. I can think of no 
one that I have ever known who is, by virtue of the 
genius of his being, less susceptible, either from an 
intellectual or moral point of view, of a delusion. 
Frequent contact with him through many years has 
taught me, with a cumulative cogency of demonstra- 
tion, that truth could have no more honourable 
champion, and falsity no more bitter foe than he; 
and so, when he tells me that the essence of this 
treatise has come to him by way of inspiration, 
without any active intervention of his own intelli- 
gence, I believe what he says to be true. I believe 
it because the faith accords with an instinct in me 
that responds, with delight and gladness, to the 
wonderful; and I believe it because of my invin- 
cible trust in the manhood, the veracity and the un- 
impeachable integrity of the one who claims for 
himself, not the honours of an author, but the more 
humble function of an amanuensis of celestial 
teachers. 

Joseph A. Milburn. 

Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church, Chicago. 



THE WRITER'S PREFACE 



THIS is the third volume of the word which 
I have been privileged to write from the 
dictation of personalities in the life beyond 
earth, who understand the meaning of 
man's life in its broader significance, and who view 
with fuller comprehension the relation between the 
Infinite Life and the finite life of man. For pref- 
ace I will make a brief resume, in my own words, 
of a part of the thought given in those volumes, 
hoping that it may help some to appreciate the san- 
ity, the cheerfulness, and the hopefulness of the 
doctrine which the freed lives would have us use 
as a guide for our lives on earth, and the importance 
of the earth life to the whole life of the immortal 
self. I cannot pretend to give in a few pages more 
than a partial resume of their doctrine, and a few 
of its suggestions for my own thinking. A volume 
would not exhaust the thought that one may find 
between the lines of their word. 

Again and again they urge us to think deeply 
upon their word, to find what it means to each man's 
own daily life, and each man's own problem of mak- 
ing his life ready for the wider life of personal self. 

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Most important to our right thinking is a firm 
foundation in truths upon which we can build with 
confidence. What could give greater assurance of 
the validity of a truth than its firm assertion by 
those who have added to the wisdom found through 
the life and experience of man the greater wisdom 
found through the wider experience of wider life 
beyond earth? 

The thought for help that is given us from that 
life beyond earth is based, not upon theory but upon 
knowledge; not upon logic but upon firm convic- 
tion; upon knowledge greater than man may find, 
upon conviction made sure by the broader experi- 
ence of life freed from the limitations of man. The 
personalities who give us this word say firmly that 
it is truth known to them, truth upon which men's 
thinking must be based if they are to think rightly 
of man, man's work, and man's life. 

They would lead men to their own unwavering 
belief that God is from eternity to eternity God; 
that He is the Creator of the Universe, the Creator 
of all that is beside Himself; that the Universe is 
because He wills, and while He wills ; that its vast- 
ness, its order, its mighty forces, its marvelous va- 
riety in unity, are a thought of the Creator made 
finite reality by His infinite will ; that for the Uni- 
verse which He made, and for every part of it, 
He purposes while He permits it to be. 



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Here is firm foundation for philosophic thought 
of men ; adequate first cause, and teleological unity : 
the Infinite Creator, the finite whole of a willed 
reality, and omnipotent, omniscient and omnipres- 
ent purpose which governs the finite whole : the Cre- 
ator and His Universe. 

The Universe is finite reality, finite because 
created; beginning in time because created; exist- 
ing in time, developing in time; its existence and 
its development measurable in terms of space and 
time, though in terms far exceeding man's ability 
to comprehend. The only self-existent, measure- 
less, eternal Reality is the Creator. All else begins 
in His will, continues by His will, and is ruled by 
His purpose. 

The Universe then is reality not a part of, but 
apart from its Wilier. The metaphysical "Whole" 
is not God manifested in His Universe, but God 
and the finite reality which He willed into being. 

Man is a part of the willed Universe. He is, this 
word from the wider wisdom asserts, co-existent, 
not with his Creator, but with the Universe, since 
his germ was with original created matter. And his 
life developed upon earth from that germ when 
earth had developed the resources which man was 
purposed to use for his physical sustenance and 
for his work. Man was always man, always a life 
superior to other willed life, and when by the willed 



xxii The Writer's Preface 

development through ages he was ready for wider 
life than that purposed for other created beings his 
individuality was made an immortal personal self. 

This statement makes necessary the view that 
creation was not only an act of Supreme Will, but 
is also a continual manifestation of unwavering and 
progressive purpose, and that the giving of immor- 
tality to the self is not to be looked upon as a spe- 
cial act, an after-thought of the Wilier of All, and 
therefore inconsistent with the idea of a unified 
creation, but a fulfilling of original purpose. 

Man is a finite life, since he is not a part of, but 
a creation of the Infinite Life, the Wilier of All. 
Does the willing of immortality make that life 
partly infinite? The thought is not tenable. The 
Infinite is the unlimited; the finite is the limited. 
Immortality is never finished duration of life. The 
now of the immortal finite life is limited, and the 
eternal now of the never finished duration of 
created life remains limited. The now of the Life 
Infinite is unlimited, and the eternal now of that 
Infinite Life is forever unlimited. The difference 
is radical and eternal. 

Creation involves not only the willing of matter 
and force but the ordaining of continuing laws 
through which the orderly universe develops. By 
the operation of ordained laws earth developed to 
the purposed fitness for life upon it. By the opera- 



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tion of ordained laws the purposed life developed 
upon earth when earth was ready for it. Thus man 
became an animal life, fitted as other life, for 
growth, propagation by seed, death and extinction. 
Thus far he was only fitted for a life on earth, and 
there to finish his life, after fulfilling the law or- 
dained for preservation of species. His life was 
individual life which began and ended on earth. 
His faculties, higher in quality than those of other 
life, were individual, and capable of indefinite ex- 
pansion. But their expansion was thus far limited 
to that which could be attained by the individual 
during his one earth span of life. When that life 
was finished on earth its faculties were extinguished 
with it. Man was still mortal. But from the be- 
ginning of creation man's life was destined for 
more than this, and in the fullness of His time the 
Wilier of Life conferred upon that life His gift 
of immortality, and the individual man is hence- 
forth an immortal self. His personal powers, that 
belong to the life, became then immortal powers, 
and man's life was ready for the wider growth 
purposed from creation by Omnipotent Will. This 
completes the harmony of the Universe, and is the 
crowning act of a creative purpose not fulfilled 
until man on earth is made life of self immortal. 

What life is finite man may not understand. 
How life was made immortal none but the Wilier 



xxiv The Writer's Preface 

of Life may comprehend. By this gift of immor- 
tality of the self man was at last that which from 
creation he was purposed to be, a life fitted for 
worlds, and for the wide Universe, a life of self 
endowed with powers suited for its use forever, a 
life made in the image of its Creator, given by that 
Creator powers like in kind, though finite, to the 
powers of Himself, the Life Infinite. And hence- 
forth the further purpose for that life of its Maker 
is to be fulfilled by its own wise use of the powers 
with which He endowed it, the mighty powers of 
immortal personal self. And by the giving of 
those immortal powers the Wilier of life made 
it able to fulfill His purpose. 

The life of man, conscious of itself, conscious of 
its powers, conscious of will and purpose that look 
way ahead, conscious of thought not limited to the 
world which is its dwelling place for awhile, con- 
scious of its freedom to use its powers as it wishes, 
is the highest created being, the acme of Creative 
Purpose, the one being made in finite resemblance 
to its Infinite Wilier. The Infinite Will made man 
a life of finite will ; the Infinite Purpose made man 
a life of finite purpose; the Infinite Mind made 
man a life of finite mind; the Infinite Self made 
man a finite self. The Omnipotent will, self-exist- 
ent from eternity, willed when man's life should 
begin a finite existence. The infinite wisdom, know- 



The Writer's Preface xxv 

ing all, willed that life of man shall gain its finite 
wisdom through its own work for wisdom. The 
Eternal, independent of time, willed that life of 
man begin in time, and grow in the flow of time 
to immortality. And the life which He made free 
to will and purpose as it wishes, has, for its eternal 
must, to fulfill by the way He wills, which is 
through the powers that He gives, His eternal 
purpose. 

Here, too, is firm foundation for men's thinking. 
The material Universe, which is not made free, 
obeys the laws which God ordained as He purposes 
it shall. The life of man, which is made free, ful- 
fills by its willed powers God's unwavering and 
eternal purpose. The Supreme Will is sufficient 
first cause; the Supreme Purpose is sufficient rea- 
son; and, though the finite mind may not under- 
stand either Supreme Will or Supreme Purpose, 
they are the only concepts which bring to the finite 
understanding satisfying answers to the inevitable 
questions — what — whence — and why. 

The Supreme Will delegates to the finite will of 
the life made the fulfilling of His will for that life. 
The Supreme Purpose delegates to the finite pur- 
pose the fulfilling of His purpose. Man is the life 
who must, because the Higher Will and Purpose 
are supreme; yet man is free in the use of his will 
and purpose. But the Supreme Purpose is that 



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the life made learn to use its immortal powers 
wisely, and through its own wise use attain the 
worth which that life is purposed by Supreme Will. 

Man is a willed life and an immortal life. Since 
man develops on earth, and is there made immortal 
self, the life of immortality begins on earth. Man 
is a life purposed to grow in worth, and that life 
begins its growth on earth. Man is a life of per- 
sonal self, and his life attains its growth by use of 
personal powers. Personal self is necessarily free, 
and the self uses its powers for growth when it 
chooses. But since personal self is willed growth 
by the will of Omnipotence, and is given free will 
and purpose, it must attain its willed growth by its 
own free will and purpose. The free personal life 
of man is willed wider life beyond earth. It must 
then, while it is man on earth, make itself ready and 
worthy for the wider life, for personal self would 
not attain forced worth. Since a personal self may 
forever continue to choose weak, or unworthy, or 
wicked use of its free powers, the Wilier of life, 
who is forever just, teaches it wisdom in use of its 
powers. The life must, while it is man on earth, 
learn how to make itself ready and worthy for the 
purposed wider life; therefore its experience in the 
life on earth is the purposed teaching. The per- 
sonal life takes to its wider life its personal powers, 
mind, will, purpose and memory, and it follows 



The Writer's Preface xxvii 

that the experience of its life on earth is the teach- 
ing needed to prepare those powers for wider use 
in the wider life. Since Omniscient Wisdom 
placed the life of man on earth, earth and earth 
conditions are suited to that life. Since Omni- 
present Justice wills that all lives of men shall at- 
tain wider life than that of earth, and comprehends 
the possible weakness of the finite, free, personal 
self, He suited the life of man as it is, and the con- 
ditions and problems of that life, to be the very 
teaching which every life needs to fit it for the pur- 
posed wider life. 

Then the daily life of man, the life for which 
work is the normal condition, is suited to be the be- 
ginning of the teaching of immortal life, and 
teaches that life surely. Work is the foundation of 
the life's teaching. Every man recognizes that a 
life without work of some kind is useless, charac- 
terless, almost negative; and a negative personal 
self is not fitted for wider life, and hardly fitted 
to be even a man. Then the work of earth teaches 
the immortal life something that it needs, some- 
thing that it must have because, in the omnipotent 
purpose, it must become ready for wider life. What 
is it that the life needs and is taught on earth? 
What is it that man uses in his work? The body 
physical, a delicate and powerful tool, but for use 
on earth only. Beside that tool he uses the powers 



xxviii The Writer's Preface 

that are given him as a life, his mind, will, purpose 
and memory. It is the wise use of those powers 
that the life needs, and the work of earth teaches 
that wise use. 

Those powers are the personal powers of the im- 
mortal personal self, and that self uses in its wider 
life and wider work the very powers that it uses in 
man. In man on earth begins their use, and while 
the self is man they must be made ready for wider 
life's use, for the self is willed by its Maker wider 
life and work, and wider use of its personal powers. 
And to immortality the personal self, which is by 
God made for eternal growth, uses in its wider and 
wider field of life and work the same powers which 
it uses in its limited field of earth life and work. 

We who are still of the earth life cannot realize 
what this means. But the selves in the wider life 
do realize it. And they realize it through memory 
of their lives as men. The conscious self wakes 
after death of physical body to wider life, know- 
ing that it possesses mind, will and purpose; and 
memory, that other power of life, proves that it is 
still the same self who lived on earth, and there- 
fore that its powers are the same that it used there. 
And while the self lives, to immortality, it uses in 
its wider and wider work, and to attain its wider 
and wider worth of life, the same powers it used 
in its first life of teaching, the life on earth. 



The Writer's Preface xxix 

And here we gain a broader mental vision of the 
importance, in the purpose of the Wilier of All, of 
the being whom He wills to be man on earth. The 
self of man is the one being created for eternal 
growth, and endowed with powers that broaden 
with the life's growth to immortality. Earth is a 
dwelling place and a working place, the universe 
is a dwelling place and a working place for the 
lives of men. 

And I think it is not too much to believe that, 
were the earth to fly from its orbit to the blazing 
sun, and be melted in its stupendous fires, not one 
immortal life of man would be harmed. Only the 
physical body would perish. And though this Uni- 
verse should, by the will of its Maker, cease to be, 
the life of man whom He made immortal would 
live on in some wider Universe adapted by Omnipo- 
tent God to its wider needs, its wider work, and its 
wider life. 

The truth of the persistence of human person- 
ality is most important to our understanding of 
the man's life and the man's work. Each man is a 
finite, immortal, personal self, free in his use of 
the life's immortal powers. When man has made 
his life worthy wider life it is his personal self which 
enters into wider life, and that life remains a per- 
sonal self to eternity. Man's life is not a part of 
the Infinite Life; it is not a part of a "spiritual 



xxx The Writer's Preface 

whole of life"; it is not a part of a "cosmic whole" 
of life. After death of the body the life is not lost 
or merged, but maintains its personal identity. In 
wider life it is the same self that it was on earth, 
and by the wise use of the same powers which it 
used in man it attains the wider and wider growth 
which God purposes for it. And finally that 
growth, though it is the growth of the finite self, fits 
it for a life forever happy in the presence of, and 
in full accord with its infinite Maker. 

This life, which is so great in its purposed des- 
tiny, so great in its endowments, lives the man's 
life while it is on earth, begins in the man's life the 
development of its potentialities, has the teaching 
that is purposed for life on earth, and attains the 
man's growth; which growth is purposed to fit it 
for translation to the wider sphere of growth be- 
yond earth. Its teaching is through the man's life 
of work and the man's problems, for the life on 
earth is man. There is no getting away from the 
man's work and the man's problems, and no other 
worthiness to be attained than the man's worthi- 
ness until, through experience on earth, the life 
has become ready for wider life. And it is by the 
man's own use of the powers given him as an im- 
mortal self that his life attains the man's worthi- 
ness that wins the wider life, for man is made free. 
It is the life made free that fulfills the eternal pur- 



The Writer's Preface xxxi 

pose of its Maker. And it is the life on earth as 
it is, with all its littleness and its greatness, with 
all its problems of work, with all its problems of 
thought, with all its problems of ethics and religion, 
with its pleasures and its pains, with its oppor- 
tunities and its deprivations, which is the purposed 
teaching that prepares the life of self for the prob- 
lems of wider work and the problems of wider 
thought in the life after earth. 

We are accustomed to the thought that the life 
must be worthy if it is to win Heaven, and our 
thought has been that a man's work has no part in 
his winning Heaven; that work is the curse of 
earth-life and has no place in Paradise. But the 
wiser lives give us a different thought. And how 
reasonable it is! For what is the life given work 
by its Maker while it is man, if it is to forget how to 
work in wider life? For what is man given the 
immortal powers of life to use in his daily work on 
earth, if they are to rust in the wider life of the 
self to whom those powers belong? Is not work 
well done and well finished the greatest help in 
character-building? Does the immortal self finish 
its character- building on earth? Would one like 
to think that? If the personal self goes into the 
wider life, it takes with it the powers which it has 
used in its work on earth. Do mind, will, purpose 
and memory finish their usefulness because the self 



xxxii The Writer's Preface 

finds better life ? Would it be better and wider life 
of personal self unless its personal powers can 
there be used in wider work and wider problems? 
The earth work is suited to the life while it is man. 
The wider life finds work suited to that life. The 
immortal powers of life are not limited to the pos- 
sibilities of man's work. No man finds the limit of 
their potentiality. Man only begins the immortal 
life, only begins the life's use of its immortal 
pow r ers. 

The work of man, which is by no means all phys- 
ical labor, is the foundation teaching of immortal 
life, for it is the first teaching of the powers which 
belong to life while it is man and forever. Through 
work man, and therefore life, learns wisdom and 
firmness in the use of those powers. Not every 
man learns, some remain weak; but it goes almost 
without saying that the weak life would find no 
place in a sphere of wider w r ork and greater prob- 
lems than that of earth. It can hardly take care of 
itself on earth. But that weak life is an immortal 
self, destined by its Maker to find wider life, and 
therefore destined to learn the wisdom which makes 
it ready for wider life. What becomes of the weak 
life when the man's body dies, and it is not ready 
for the wider life? The immortal self lives on, and 
cannot leave earth until it is fitted for life bej^ond 
earth. It does not vanish into nothingness, it is 



The Writer's Preface xxxiii 

an immortal self. It still holds the powers of self, 
which belong to the life, not to the body which it 
has left, and those powders must be made ready for 
wider use if the life is to fulfill its purposed des- 
tiny. Then the life that has left the body cannot 
remain sleeping, but must be at work, and since it 
is not ready to leave earth, and the life of self on 
earth is man, it follows that the self immortal is 
reincarnated in another man's body, and again re- 
ceives the teaching of man's work and experience. 
And it is so reincarnated until it learns the wisdom 
which God purposes that it shall learn on earth, wis- 
dom in the use of the immortal powers that are its 
own powers forever. 

The ego of man is the highest being in the created 
Universe. It is more than matter, it is more than 
force, it is more than universal law. So far as it is 
physical it is subject to the universal laws which 
rule matter and force, but its powers as personal 
self are superior to those laws. It dwells in the one 
physical body, but its will and purpose act to the 
ends of the earth. It is held to the physical body 
to-day, but its memory recalls its yesterdays. Its 
physical body holds it to earth, but its thought 
roams the wider universe. 

Given the powers of personal self, which differ 
but in degree from the like powers of its Maker, 
willed to use in finite activity on earth the powers 



xxxiv The Writer's Preface 

which Infinite Life uses in His infinite activity, 
the ego of man, in its volitional activity, both com- 
prehends and transcends earth. It is the one life 
on earth which rises superior to earth. It is the 
one life on earth which wills and purposes and 
thinks both for earth and for beyond earth. The 
personal activity of the ego of man is an essential 
in an active earth, in an active universe, "And for 
man all problems of being and thinking must make 
their calculations upon this inherent activity of the 
ego." * 

Man's life is "a birth and a becoming." The 
earth, the universe itself, are a birth and a becom- 
ing. The birth of all is by God's will. The be- 
coming of the material universe is by laws which 
He ordained; the becoming of man's life of self is 
by its own personal will, and finally achieves that 
which God purposes for it. 

How the ego is reincarnated we may not know ; 
we may not know what life itself is. That does 
not matter. We can recognize the justice of re- 
incarnation, which means that each life that is man 
on earth by the will of its Maker is taught the wis- 
dom which He purposes it shall find on earth 
through the same discipline, the discipline of man's 
work and man's experience. And it means that 
every life, though it be weak or unworthy or wicked 

*Shaw. 



The Writer's Preface xxxv 

to-day, will finally be taught. This is even-handed 
justice. God made each life a personal self; he 
knows the weakness and the strength of the finite 
self that He made; He so made each life that it 
learns through experience. Necessarily Supreme 
Wisdom foresaw what would happen on earth 
through the inter-action of finite wills and purposes. 
Necessarily He foresaw the weakness and wicked- 
ness of men through perverted use of free will. 
Necessarily He foresaw that the short space and 
the brief experience of one man's life will not be 
enough to teach every self the wisdom in use of its 
immortal powers that makes it ready for wider life. 
But God's justice does not make one life for un- 
ending weakness on earth, and another for strength 
in higher life. Every self of man is made for 
higher life, and every self of man, free though it 
be to will and purpose as it wishes, is by Higher 
Will purposed to learn the wisdom that brings 
higher life. Reincarnation is both penalty and op- 
portunity, through which the free self, by its work 
and experience on earth, learns to fulfill of its own 
choice God's immutable purpose. 

Personal self then makes itself worthy the des- 
tined wider life, and personal self learns wisdom 
when it chooses. The life may choose weakness or 
wickedness, and thereby chooses the penalty for 
weakness and wickedness. It may choose strength 



xxxvi The Writer's Preface 

and wisdom, and thereby chooses the reward of 
strength and wisdom. Justice to a life made per- 
sonal permits weakness or strength, but it would 
not be just to make a life free, and leave it to go 
on incurring penalty forever. Therefore the life 
is made more than merely free. It is made able to 
learn wisdom through its own work, its own reason, 
and its own experience. 

And so, given immortality, given the free will of 
personal self, given the opportunities of reincarna- 
tion on earth, and given the repeated teaching of 
man's work and experience, every life made man by 
Higher Will finally fulfills His purpose that it 
shall, by its own use of its powers, and of its own 
free choice, become ready for the wider life pur- 
posed by God from His willing of all. 

"God's purpose keeps life working on earth 
while it needs the teaching of man's life and work. 
His justice gives life the opportunities which it 
needs to learn wise use of its free will. His justice 
wakes life to its duty through the teaching which 
it has by His purpose." * 

The life of personal self is of necessity free in 
the use of will and purpose. When the life is ready 
for wider life depends on the man's choice. At no 
time, in no incarnation, is the life forced to become 
wise. But it is taught. Many a man finds earth 

*Eleanora. 



The Writer's Preface xxxvii 

life so pleasant that he never thinks beyond it, 
and wishes that he might live on earth again. That 
is not forbidden, and that man is very sure to have 
his wish. But it is by no means sure that another 
life on earth will be so pleasant. The self is pur- 
posed wider life, and Omnipotent Purpose must be 
fulfilled. If the self will not be taught to desire 
better things than those of earth through a happy 
life on earth, it will be taught through an unhappy 
one, and the teaching of adversity is hard. But 
there is that in the willed nature of man, the life, 
which finally rises above a desire for earth, and 
willingly accepts the teaching which God purposes 
that it shall have. It is not forbidden that it think 
itself satisfied with the little things of earth; it is 
not forbidden that it even grovel in the dirt of earth. 
But the willed nature is such that it cannot always 
be thus satisfied, or always grovel in the dirt, and 
God's purpose will finally be fulfilled because He 
made the personal self for wider life, and its innate 
being cannot be satisfied for always with the nar- 
rower life of earth. The finite life, made in the 
image of the Infinite Life, finally longs to draw 
nearer to its Maker. 

The purpose of God for man, the life, is finally 
fulfilled because He made man as he is, implanted 
in him his nature, made him personal self, gives 
him the powers of immortal self, gives his life the 



xxxviii The Writer's Preface 

opportunities of reincarnation, makes reincarnation 
a penalty when the life needs the discipline of pen- 
alty, and gives him the teaching which his life needs, 
the teaching of man's life and work as it is. God's 
purpose is fulfilled by the life through the means 
which He provides. 

In this thought is ground for firm faith and as- 
sured hope when the man battles valiantly with his 
daily difficulties and problems ; and herein is danger 
if the man thinks, — "Why then need I strive? God 
will make my life worthy." That is the very thing 
He will not do. The life must become worthy the 
wider life by its own use of the powers that God 
gives, and of its own free choice. The wider life is 
won by personal struggle, and each man fights his 
battle for himself, and when he chooses. Then this 
man who is life now may fight his battle well, and 
hope that God will judge him worthy the wider life, 
or may shirk his battle, and yield to weakness or 
wickedness, and thus will for himself another life on 
earth. Thank God, no life can will itself eternal 
punishment or eternal defeat. Thank God, the 
purpose of life's Maker is formed in love, and no 
life made by Him can for always evade the eternal 
purpose that it win wider life and happiness. But 
even love chastises when chastisement is needed to 
bring understanding. And when the life has 
learned wisdom through its penalties for weakness 



The Writer's Preface xxxix 

or unworthiness, love forgives and blots out the 
transgression. It is God's love, not His chastise- 
ment, that follows the life forever. 

And thus we are led to understanding that there 
is no discord between God's purpose and man's life 
on earth, and find the solution of many problems 
that have puzzled men. This life that we men 
live, with all its varied experience, with all its little 
and its great work, with all its high ideals and all 
its meannesses, with its pleasure and its pain, with 
its good and its evil, is the very life which our own 
reason, if we think with this thought from the wider 
life for our guide, will tell us is suited for free, per- 
sonal, finite lives, beginning their work and their 
education for wider life. It is God's purpose that 
man's free will and purpose so utilize the life of 
man as it is that immortal personal life of self be- 
come ready for wider life and wider work. God's 
purpose must be fulfilled, yet man's will is free; 
God's purpose must be fulfilled though the life in 
this man's flesh be weak or unworthy; God's pur- 
pose must be fulfilled though the life need many 
reincarnations to learn wisdom ; God's purpose will 
be fulfilled, and it may be fulfilled by this man who 
lives now, if he thus chooses. 

What has life from its Maker for help to fulfill 
His purpose? It is given by Him the conscious- 
ness of selfhood. It is given mind that thinks, mind 



xl The Writer's Preface 

that reasons. It is given purpose, the planning 
power, and will the executive power. It is given 
memory, the recording power. They are the free 
powers of immortal personal self. What does the 
life learn on earth by God's purpose? The firm 
and wise use of those powers. For what are those 
immortal powers of life used by man? For the 
work of man, which is life's work on earth, and 
for the worthiness of man, which is life's worth on 
earth. When are they the help that God purposes 
they shall finally be? When the man chooses. 

What further help to fulfill His purpose has 
the life from its Maker? Man the life has from 
his Maker his thought of God, his thought of 
right and wrong, his thought of worship, for he 
finds those thoughts by God's purpose. Man has 
by his Maker's purpose the example in Christ of 
the perfect life of man. In order that, with Christ's 
life as his ideal and Christ's teaching as his pre- 
cept, man may know how to strive for the worth of 
life which God purposes for man on earth, God 
Himself lived as man on earth. These helps for 
the life while it is man are helps while life is. 
When are the willed thoughts and the example 
of Christ helps to man's life? When the man 
chooses. 

And, since this little earth is but one of many 
upon which the life is man, and Christ comes to 



The Writer's Preface xli 

man on all other worlds which have man's life as 
He came to man on this earth, His life as man is 
the pattern for man's worthy life through all the 
vast Universe. From the freed life comes this won- 
derful thought as truth. 

Man works for immortal life; man thinks for im- 
mortal life; man wills and purposes for immortal 
life; and with Christ's help, which he may have 
through honest prayer, man works and thinks and 
purposes well. This thought the teachers who are 
now in the wider life would have men remember 
in the hour of work, in the hour of reflection, and in 
the hour of prayer. 

This which I have written in my own words, is 
some of the ripened thought of those who look 
back upon the man's life as finished forever, who 
remember the work of earth but are doing wider 
work, who remember their lives on earth but are 
in wider life, who would help men by their word 
to win more quickly the life which they themselves 
have won. 

It is not all thought new to men, but it is essen- 
tial to men's understanding of the earth-life and 
work. It is not all new truth, but, collated as it 
is, it is new doctrine. And it is doctrine which every 
man, whosoever and wheresoever he be, will find 
helpful if he will think how to apply it to his own 
man's life. 



xlii The Writer's Preface 

This word from those whom God has taught, 
(for they have won the wider life that comes only 
to those who have learned through His teaching), 
brings to us who are still men a great and wonder- 
ful faith, that is timely in this day of the world's 
woe; faith that neither war nor pestilence nor 
famine, neither murder nor sudden death, neither 
weakness nor wickedness nor crime itself, neither 
the evil which man can inflict nor that which he may 
suffer, can cause enduring harm to the lives whom 
God has in His keeping and for whom He pur- 
poses. 

And while we give our tears of pity and our 
help for the suffering of the world, while our hearts 
bleed that men will misuse as they do God's gift 
of life, our faith may still thank Him that His 
compassion gathers every suffering and every err- 
ing life into His arms finally; that His wisdom 
teaches every life finally; that in His purpose every 
suffering one will at last rejoice, every weak one 
will at last be strong, every wicked one will at last 
be worthy, and all lives of men will, of their own 
free choice and of their own free purpose, fulfill 
His benevolent purpose that the life whom He 
made immortal win wider and wider life, greater 
and yet greater worth, to eternity. 

"Then we who live man's life well, who find firm 
purpose for life, who will that wider life be helped 



The Writer's Preface xliii 

when we will to find firm purpose, will thank God 
for His purpose to eternity." * 

Wm. C. Comstock. 

Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, June, 1915. 
*Dr. Coulter. 



DR. COULTER'S PREFACE 



^W" "^T TPHE who tell this word have won freed 
% / % / life. We would by the thought we 
W W tell help men to find firm purpose 
for life worthy. We tell the thought 
which life of man needs. Will Higher made life 
for earth man; Will Higher wills for life which 
He made man while that life is ; Will Higher pur- 
poses for that life wider life won by its own free 
purpose; man who wills for life worthy fulfills the 
purpose of that Will Higher; man who works as 
personal life finds through the teaching of that 
work the purpose by which life finds its worth for 
wider life; man who is life immortal wins the firm 
purpose by which life immortal finds its worth for 
wider and wider life to eternity. We pray God 
that the words may help men to live worthily the 
man's life and win the better, fuller life of free- 
dom. 



xlv 



I 

WORK OF MAN 



WORK OF MAN 



Dr. Coulter. 

WE, the lives who work the work of 
lives freed, the wider work which 
God purposes for life which has 
found its freedom from worlds, 
would help men who work the earth work to un- 
derstanding of the help that work may be. Man 
works for his earth welfare, thinking that he works 
for that only. Work that man has is purposed to 
be the earth work of life immortal. That work well 
finished makes life worthy wider work in freedom 
from earth. That work teaches life for which 
wider work is by God purposed. Work that helps 
man helps life itself. That teaching which life 
finds through man's finished work makes life ready 
for the wider work of life freed. What meaning 
this gives to man's work! We help the man who 
will think. 

The work purposed to teach life man has for his 

work, but man works well or ill as he chooses. The 

life works as man works. When man wills firmly 

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4 Man's Life of Purpose 

that his work be well finished his life finds firm pur- 
pose; when man~wills weakly for his work life 
finds not firm purpose. The life which is man has 
itself to free, for thus Will Higher purposes. Then 
life which wishes this wider life finds in man the 
firm purpose which brings the wider life. Man 
wills whether life find firm or weak purpose. But 
firm purpose life must find finally, for God pur- 
poses higher life won through life's firm purpose. 
Why then will or purpose weakly, man who would 
help life to freedom? You yourself find the firm 
purpose that frees life. 

The life which wills on earth for man's work is 
life immortal. When man wills for work well life 
immortal wins firm purpose. When man wills for 
work weakly life wins but weak purpose. Then 
life chooses firm or weak purpose in man as man 
wishes. But life which is purposed worth must 
find firm purpose, for only by firm purpose does 
life find the worth for higher life. We, lives freed, 
tell that which we know. Man himself finds for 
life immortal the firm purpose which frees life 
from earth, and that which by God's purpose life 
must find it must find of free purpose its own. 
Heed the word, O man. 

We who worked man's work, who by that work 
found firm purpose, would help men to wise thought 
of the work they do. Man wins by well-finished 



Work of Man 5 

work the firm purpose that life holds while it is. 
This thought will help many, we pray God. 

The work which man has is the work of life itself, 
the first work that teaches life for which wider work 
is by God purposed. Man thinks that his work is 
for his man's life only. We tell that man who 
works is working first work of life immortal. That 
first work, purposed for teaching, finally teaches the 
life for which wider work is purposed the firm pur- 
pose needed in the wider life. While man works 
life is learning; but man works well or ill as he 
chooses ; then life purposed teaching has the teach- 
ing when man chooses. Life learns wisdom for 
wider life by man's work. Help work is purposed 
to be. Help it is finally, for that which God pur- 
poses all finite life obeys. Man who wills for his 
work well helps life to work well in wider life. 
Man who wills for his work weakly wills for his 
life further work of man. Each life wills freely; 
each life works by God's purpose. When that work 
willed for life on earth is by man well finished, 
life purposed wider work is prepared for its wider 
work. Think then, man who works life's work. 
That work which you have helps life if you will. 

Man works the work which by God's purpose 
teaches life immortal. Well the life works finally 
on earth, for the work which God wills to life must 
be finished. While life is man it finishes the work 



6 Mans Life of Purpose 

purposed for its earth work, must, for thus God 
purposes. Will for work finished well life finds in 
man finally, but that life which wills weakly wins 
further work of man. Firm will for work finishes 
the work for teaching purposed. Only that life 
which has finished its work of earth wins wider 
work. The life which wills weakly finishes but 
part of its earth work; then that life wins but man's 
work again. Would man wish further work on 
earth when life may find wider work if the man 
will? Well then work, man who would win life 
wider. Work helps forward the life toward free- 
dom, when well finished. Each man wills whether 
his work help life to win freedom or no. Think, 
man who works. 

The work which man has, being the work that 
teaches life, teaches man who is life. What does 
work of man teach life? Firm purpose, firm will 
that help life to win the worth that frees from earth. 
What worth does life win on earth? The worth 
which man wills. Only that worth may life win on 
earth, for life while it wills on earth wills in man. 
What worth frees life from earth? Worth won by 
the man of free will. Does that worth free im- 
mortal life from earth? That worth is by God pur- 
posed; that worth wins the wider life which life 
must by God's purpose find. Then who wills that 
worth? This man, if he wishes. Would man's 



Work of Man 7 

will, weak as men know it may be, win that worth 
which frees life from earth? That worth frees life | 
God thus purposes. Would this man who wills 
for man's worth free his life by willing the worth 
he may? Yes, for by man must be found the worth 
of life on earth. We tell this for help. Think, who 
would win life freed. Your will well used will 
win the worth for freedom. 

Work helps life of man. That life win firm pur- 
pose work is by God willed. That life of free will 
learn to use free will wisely work is by God willed. 
Man has for his work the earth work of life immor- 
tal. Placed on earth by God, willed there to be 
taught firm purpose, firm wise free will, life immor- 
tal finishes on earth that work which by God's pur- 
pose is teaching for firm purpose and firm free will. 
God purposes for life wider life. Wider life needs 
firm will, firm purpose. Each life finds that firm 
purpose, finds that firm wise free will, and thus pre- 
pares for the wider life of personal self that is by 
God purposed. Man works as life for which life 
wider is purposed, finishes finally the purposed 
teaching. The life which is on earth man finds its 
wider life helped by the firm purpose and firm will 
found through man's work on earth. Thought 
helpful, man of earth who would win wider life. 
Your work wins firm purpose, firm wise free will, 
when you choose. Think well, O man. 



8 Mans Life of Purpose 

Work, then, purposed firmly, wins the help 
which life freed must have, the help of firm purpose, 
firm wise free will. That firm free purpose helps 
life forever. 

Work of man is the life's work. Man who wills 
for his work wills for the life's work then. That 
work which man finishes well life finishes well ; that 
work which man finishes ill life finishes ill. When 
life finishes well its work for earth willed it wins 
wider life and wider work; but when life finishes 
but part of the work willed to be its work for earth, 
life wins but that work of earth again. Man wills 
how life's work be finished. By the free will of 
life personal then man finishes well or ill life's work 
of earth. By that work life purposed wider work 
must prepare for its wider work. Then, man who 
wills for work to-day, think. You prepare life for 
wider work if you choose. Think well. 

Work God makes the portion of life both while 
it is man, and when freed. We who live the freed 
life work as freed life is purposed to work, using 
in that work firm purpose which we won on earth. 
The man who lives his earth life working firmly 
prepares life for the work it has for help when 
freed. The man who works weakly keeps life un- 
prepared for wider life's work. Then work firmly, 
man who wills to-day. For life wider you work 
when you work firmly; for life of man again you 



Work of Man 9 

work when you work weakly. Hear and heed the 
word from freed life, O men. 

Man who works for life wills for his work by free 
will. His life wills that which man wills. For life 
the will is by God made free. Work that helps life 
man has. That work helps when well done and well 
finished. Work for life firmly, then, you who have 
life to free. For life man wills well who finishes 
well the man's work. Then that work helps life. 
Why will weakly for work, O man? Life works 
well when man works well. Think, man who works, 
think well. 

Work teaches life. Man who works that work 
which God purposes that life have on earth wills 
for that work using free will. His wise use helps 
life, his weak use harms life. While life works 
where it is man 'it has God's purpose to fulfill. 
Then by man's work, which He who made life pur- 
poses must teach life, man wins the purpose firm 
which work is willed to teach. Help men to un- 
derstand this word, we pray thee, O God. 

Wilberforce. 

Will Higher, will of the Maker of Life, purposes 
for that life wider life than life of man. Worth that 
man finds wins that wider life. Free to will well 
or weakly, life made personal self wills for life 
worthy finally, taught by the life and work of man. 



10 Mans Life of Purpose 

We, the lives freed, were workers of man's work 
that taught us the worth that work well finished 
brings. We found that help which work is pur- 
posed to be. Well life works when taught the 
wisdom that work of man finally teaches. That 
life who works well the man's work finds help for 
the wider work of life freed. Firm purpose for 
work helps life forever. 

The life who works man's work is purposed bet- 
ter, wider work in higher life beyond earth. Life 
finds work is help in man, for the life which is pur- 
posed higher life is taught wisdom by the life of 
man. Will firm is taught by the work of life, pur- 
pose firm life learns through work. Man who is 
life personal works his work well or weakly as he 
himself wills, but life while it is man finds, of God's 
purpose, firm purpose. Work finished of man, life 
finds higher life and wider work. Yet by man's 
work life personal, man's immortal self, finds firm 
purpose. Man who lives man's life weakly, man 
who purposes for man's work weakly, helps not his 
immortal life. The firm purpose of man wins the 
higher life which life must find. But till firm pur- 
pose is won life remains worker on earth. Think, 
man of weak purpose, what meaning this word has 
for you. 

Man who wills for his work well finds the firm 
purpose which wins for life freedom from earth. 



Work of Man 11 

When man wills weakly his life finds not freedom. 
Man works the earth work of life purposed wider 
work in freedom from man. Work purposed to 
teach life man has. Then the man's work will teach 
life, for higher purpose for life that life must ful- 
fill. Purposed wider life, purposed higher work 
than man's work, life personal wins the firm pur- 
pose which life must by using well its free will in 
the work of earth. Then what for life must man 
will? That by work finished well he help life to 
firm purpose; that firm purpose he use daily for life 
worthy. Thus life finds freedom. Man himself 
must win it. Heed the word, man of weak pur- 
pose. 

The life who works in man is life willed wider 
work. The life while it is man finds the firm pur- 
pose which wins wider work. Man who firmly wills 
his man's work well finished himself finds that firm 
will and purpose which life finds by God's pur- 
pose. Then, man who would find wider work of 
freed life, will and purpose firmly for your man's 
work. 

That work which man has for his work is pur- 
posed for life to be teaching, That work is the 
earth work of life immortal. Then life immortal 
is taught by man's work. Will this thought help 
men? We pray it may. 

Work is man's help. That help from work which 



10 Mans Life of Purpose 

We, the lives freed, were workers of man's work 
that taught us the worth that work well finished 
brings. We found that help which work is pur- 
posed to be. Well life works when taught the 
wisdom that work of man finally teaches. That 
life who works well the man's work finds help for 
the wider work of life freed. Firm purpose for 
work helps life forever. 

The life who works man's work is purposed bet- 
ter, wider work in higher life beyond earth. Life 
finds work is help in man, for the life which is pur- 
posed higher life is taught wisdom by the life of 
man. Will firm is taught by the work of life, pur- 
pose firm life learns through work. Man who is 
life personal works his work well or weakly as he 
himself wills, but life while it is man finds, of God's 
purpose, firm purpose. Work finished of man, life 
finds higher life and wider work. Yet by man's 
work life personal, man's immortal self, finds firm 
purpose. Man who lives man's life weakly, man 
who purposes for man's work weakly, helps not his 
immortal life. The firm purpose of man wins the 
higher life which life must find. But till firm pur- 
pose is won life remains worker on earth. Think, 
man of weak purpose, what meaning this word has 
for you. 

Man who wills for his work well finds the firm 
purpose which wins for life freedom from earth. 



Work of Man 11 

When man wills weakly his life finds not freedom. 
Man works the earth work of life purposed wider 
work in freedom from man. Work purposed to 
teach life man has. Then the man's work will teach 
life, for higher purpose for life that life must ful- 
fill. Purposed wider life, purposed higher work 
than man's work, life personal wins the firm pur- 
pose which life must by using well its free will in 
the work of earth. Then what for life must man 
will? That by work finished well he help life to 
firm purpose ; that firm purpose he use daily for life 
worthy. Thus life finds freedom. Man himself 
must win it. Heed the word, man of weak pur- 
pose. 

The life who works in man is life willed wider 
work. The life while it is man finds the firm pur- 
pose which wins wider work. Man who firmly wills 
his man's work well finished himself finds that firm 
will and purpose which life finds by God's pur- 
pose. Then, man who would find wider work of 
freed life, will and purpose firmly for your man's 
work. 

That work which man has for his work is pur- 
posed for life to be teaching, That work is the 
earth work of life immortal. Then life immortal 
is taught by man's work. Will this thought help 
men? We pray it may. 

Work is man's help. That help from work which 



12 Mans Life of Purpose 

man finds by God's purpose is help for life itself. 
Worth of life is found through firm will and pur- 
pose, Work teaches, when the man wishes, firm 
will and purpose. What thought for help! Man 
who works, think well. 

That work which life has for its earth work man 
finishes. When man works well, finishing the work, 
life finds firm purpose. Firm purpose makes life 
worthy. Then man wills by his firm will for work 
that life find firm purpose. Heed the word, man 
who has life to free. That firm purpose which 
frees life must be by man won. Through the teach- 
ing of work that firm purpose is found. What 
work helps life then? That work which man does 
well. Think, man who would win freedom. You 
find firm purpose when you will. Heed the word, 
O man. 

That work which man finishes well wins firm pur- 
pose for work. But life for which God purposes 
wider life must find firm purpose for more than 
work. Then will firm for work may but win bet- 
ter work of man. Life firm for both work and 
worth is life which fulfills God's purpose. We 
found freed life using firm purpose for both work 
and life worthy. Man who works, think what firm 
purpose brings; work of man finished, life worthy, 
wider life. 

That life which works in man is life that works 



Work of Man 13 

further work when the man's life is finished. Work 
purposed for teaching life has while in man. That 
purposed work teaches life for which wider life is 
purposed. Life which has further work to finish 
wins through the work of man the firm purpose 
by which it finishes the wider work well. That life 
which wins firm purpose in man thus fulfills God's 
purpose. Wider life works wider work. The firm 
purpose which life learns through the man's work 
helps the life in its wider work! Think, man who 
purposes weakly. The life who purposes firmly it 
is that wins wider work. 

For work man was made ; his life works as man 
works. Hear and heed the word from freed lives, 
O men. 

When life in man wills for work firmly God wills 
that it find wider work. Each life finally finishes 
the work of man, for thus Will Higher purposes; 
but when life in man finds weak purpose for work, 
God keeps that life to the work of man. Think, 
who would win freedom. Work helps life toward 
freedom when well finished. Work helps life while 
it is. Man of weak purpose for work, think. 

That man work for life Will Higher wills ; that 
life win through man's work firm purpose He wills. 
For life He purposes worth found by itself, for 
will He makes wholly free. But for the life who 
wills unworthily His justice makes the life wait for 



14 Mans Life of Purpose 

freedom. Justice ? Yes, for that the life find worth 
while it wills for man He wills. Then by will that 
He gives life that life is bound to win that worth. 
When that worth is found by free choice, the pur- 
pose of God is fulfilled. 

Then why wait for life worthy, O man? You 
work this day for life if you choose; you will this 
day for life if you choose. Why wait, man of free 
will? Your worth frees life. If you make this life 
to-day worthy you help to-morrow. Think, O 
man. 

Will Higher made life man. His purpose man 
fulfills by will free. Work that His purpose makes 
man's work for life man finishes using free will. 
Then life finds, that work help when man finds 
through it firm free will. Think, man who works 
life's work. Man finds for life through his work 
the firm will that helps life forever. 

Miltiades. 

Will for work life must find in the life of man. 
Work helps life. By God's purpose man works. 
That life find firm purpose through the teaching of 
man's work He wills. Man who wills for work as 
he pleases must finally find the firm purpose which 
work well finished brings, for that firm purpose life 
finds by God's will. That life find firm purpose 
by work God wills; that life find that purpose in 



Work of Man 15 

man He wills; then life, which is man more than 
the one time, finally learns wise free purpose 
through the teaching purposed by God, the teach- 
ing of work. 

The work which man has is work purposed for 
teaching. Firm purpose man finds who works well, 
finishing well his work. That firm purpose wins 
for life the worth that frees from man. Will Higher 
places life on earth, there to find the firm purpose 
by which life wins its worth forever. When man 
finds that firm purpose life immortal finds it. 
Think, man who purposes to-day. Each life finds 
firm purpose finally, but each life finds that firm 
purpose itself. 

The firm purpose that life finds through work 
of man well finished life takes to wider life and 
higher work. God purposes that life in man find 
that firm purpose, yet He makes life free in will. 
But His purpose life finally fulfills, though it be 
free in will. Then life which finds firm purpose 
for itself finds it by God's purpose. The work of 
man teaches that firm purpose. Man works life's 
work willing himself whether life find, while he him- 
self works, the firm purpose which life must. Why 
work weakly, man who works to-day? To-day will 
help life if you choose. Think well. 

We, lives freed, remember well man's life. For 
that life which is man work is help we know. For 



16 Man's Life of Purpose 

that life firm purpose for work is help. Then, man 
who works to-day, think how your work may help 
life. Well finished work brings firm purpose ; work 
weakly done helps not man or life. Think what 
work is purposed to bring for man; firm purpose 
that life will need when freed. Now you may find 
that firm purpose. Think well. 

We, lives freed, were men. That life which man 
has prepares for this life. Man works life's earth . 
work; man finds for life immortal the firm purpose 
by which life wins this life. For men what thought 
for help here! Man himself finds the worth for 
this higher life by the firm purpose which he may 
himself find quickly through the teaching of his 
work. Will free, purpose free each man has. When 
by firm purpose life finds this higher life, man him- 
self has won it. 

The work which man finishes well wins purpose 
for to-morrow's work. The work ill finished helps 
little. Work purposed to be help for life man has. 
When his will for work wearies man harms the 
life. What purpose will man find through work 
ill finished? Weak, wavering purpose. Think, 
man of free will. Work is help for life when the 
man wishes. Think wisely, man who works. 

Work life must while it is; thus Will Higher 
purposes. Man prepares life for its work of wider 
life. Will firm that life takes to its wider work man 



Work of Man 17 

finds. Purpose firm which life uses when freed man 
finds. Mind well worked which helps life when 
freed man uses well. Life's powers man has. Work 
that teaches all those powers man has. When will 
used firmly wins firm purpose, life wins firm pur- 
pose. When man uses mind well life uses mind 
well. Those powers life takes to wider life. They 
must be made worthy wider life, or life works still 
in man. All the free powers of life which man 
uses help the life itself when well and firmly used. 
Work for life then, man of earth, using well all 
the powers of life itself which you have now. 

That work which man has wins firm purpose 
when the man finishes it well. To-day will may 
win firm purpose for to-morrow. The work of life 
man has. His purpose wins, if he chooses, wider 
work for his life immortal. 

Work purposed to teach life man has. That pur- 
posed work finally teaches life the firm purpose by 
which life wins its worth for wider life. Man him- 
self finds that firm purpose, must, for he is life 
personal whose purpose is free. But that worth of 
life is by God purposed. Then man by his free 
purpose, which by God's purpose is by the work of 
life on earth taught, wins the worth of life which 
frees personal self from earth. Remember this, 
man who works. Find help, while working, from 
the thought. 



18 Man's Life of Purpose 

Man finds for life immortal the firm purpose 
which frees life from earth. Work well finished 
brings to man firm purpose. Well used purpose 
wins for life its worth. Will Higher teaches 
through the work of man the life which finds wider 
life. By that firm purpose which man finds who 
finishes well his work the life wins its freedom. 



II 

WORK OF LIFE IN MAN 



W0KK OF LIFE IN MAN 

Br. Coulter. 

MAN was made worker on earth for the 
life which must beyond earth work 
wider work. Will Higher wills that 
life work both man's work and wider 
work. The life of man, being personal life, wills 
how man's work be finished. That life finally win 
fitness for wider work God purposes ; but till man's 
work is finished life waits for wider work. Then 
man chooses whether his life work wider work, or 
still work man's work on earth. That work pur- 
posed for teaching man has for his work. For work 
purpose firmly then, man of earth. Only when 
life works well, finishing well each day's work, can 
it win fitness for the wider work of life freed. 

The life it is that works man's work, the life pur- 
posed that work as teaching for wider work. Man 
thinks he works his earth work for man only, pur- 
posing for that work as for man's life only. We 
tell that man works as life which finds wider life 

and wider work in wider life. When life finishes 

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22 Mans Life of Purpose 

the work of earth God frees that life, and wills for 
it wider, fuller life. The work of life man has 
for his work, and by that work the life is taught 
that which wider life needs, firm purpose. Then 
the man who works well helps life that finds by 
God's purpose wider work. That thought helps 
you, O man, if you think upon it. Well must 
man work who wishes wider life, for by the work 
of life in man that life learns the firm purpose 
needed beyond earth. 

Man works for life immortal. His work is the 
first work of life immortal. That work God pur- 
poses to be teaching for life immortal. Man wills 
how the work of man is finished; but he wills for 
life while he wills for man's work. Man wills that 
life immortal work well then. Will Higher wills 
that man's work begin immortal life's work. Then 
the purpose with which man works is the purpose 
with which life works. Will Higher purposes that 
life in man prepare by man's work for wider work 
of life freed. Think, man who works weakly; 
your work prepares but for man's work further. 
Purpose firm for work helps life immortal. Re- 
member this word, man of earth. 

Work of man, being life's work for earth, the 
life must finish while it is man. But man works 
well or weakly as he chooses. What must life find 
through the work of earth? Firm purpose that it 



Work of Life in Man 23 

takes to wider life and wider work. The man who 
works well finds that firm purpose which life uses 
when freed. That which life must find by God's 
purpose it finds through man's free will. Man, 
then, purposes for life while he works his man's 
work. 

Will Higher made man working life. That 
working life wins by work firm purpose. Work 
teaches life for which firm purpose is willed, and 
through that teaching the purpose higher is ful- 
filled. Then man who is willed life, which life is 
by God purposed teaching by the man's work, learns 
finally that firm purpose which life must. But 
that purposed teaching will finally teach, not the 
man who incarnates life now, perhaps, but a man 
who incarnates the life. God purposes, and by the 
firm free purpose which life learns through God's 
teaching life finally fulfills His purpose. Finally 
every life fulfills God's purpose. Finally every life 
wins freedom. The will of God is loving will, and 
His love follows the life through its many lives 
of man, till finally life of its free purpose makes 
itself worthy the freedom He purposed for immor- 
tal life from the creation of all. 

That life who wills in man is life for whom wider, 
fuller life is by God purposed. That fuller life 
wills while it is for worth that wins still fuller, 
worthier, happier life. When the life which once 



24 Man's Life of Purpose 

was man wills, it wills firmly. But that firm will 
it learned by the life in man on earth. Then that 
which life wins through man's life it finds help in 
fuller life, and fuller life wins still fuller life by 
the firm will learned in man. Then by man's work 
life learns, if the man will, (for he is the life who 
works ) , the firm will by which life finds its worth 
forever. 

Man works life's work for earth willed; man 
wins by that work well finished the firm will and 
purpose by which life wins freedom. Then, man 
who would find freedom for your life, purpose 
firmly to-day, to-morrow, each day you live. 

That man work for his welfare God purposes; 
that life work man's work He purposes; that by 
work life find firm purpose life's Wilier purposes; 
that by the firm purpose won through the teaching 
of work life must for itself find worth for wider 
life He purposes. Life willed by Him finally ful- 
fills His will. Man, the life personal, wills for life 
worthy using for help the firm purpose found 
through work. Life finds freedom by wise use of 
the firm purpose learned through work. Help men 
to understand this word, O God. 

That work which man has help the life of man 
Purpose Higher wills; that life win firm purpose 
while working where it is man He wills; that by 
work life learn that firm purpose He wills ; and that 



Work of Life in Man 25 

life in man win the purpose which helps life for- 
ever He wills. Yet man purposes with free choice, 
man wills that which he wishes, and firm purpose 
life perhaps will not win in this man. Then will 
for life worthy is weak, for purpose drives free will. 
That life who finds firm purpose wins wider life; 
that life who finds weak purpose wills for life of 
man again. What would this man wish, the freed 
life, or work of man again? Think, man who has 
life to free, think well. 

That life work God wills, for that His will be 
fulfilled through His teaching He wills. Man who 
wills for his work of free will has the purpose of 
God to fulfill through work, and that life who is 
man finally fulfills the higher purpose through the 
teaching of the work given for help. Though life 
is wholly free, the life who wills of free will has the 
will of its Maker to obey, and finally that life, will- 
ing of free choice, willing as life taught through the 
discipline of work in man, fulfills the higher pur- 
pose of God. Will free finally becomes wise will 
free, for life is finally taught that which brings 
wisdom, and thus taught, fulfills the purpose of its 
Maker. 

The work of man, being life's work for earth 
purposed, man does using in that work the powers 
of life itself. Man wills using life's free will, pur- 
poses using life's free purpose, thinks using life's 



26 Mans Life of Purpose 

mind. The powers willed for life personal man has. 
By those powers life attains its worth. God wills 
for life which He made that by free purpose its 
own it win the worth of life which brings wider 
life. That wider life uses the powers made the 
powers of man who is life for earth. Man uses, 
then, the powers that win for life personal wider 
life; man uses them well or ill as he chooses; but 
life must finally use them for the worth that frees 
from man, for thus life's Maker wills. Then 
though life in this man may use them worthily or 
unworthily, life itself finally uses them in man 
worthily. 

The thought that work is for man only is wrong. 
The work which man has is the work purposed for 
earth work of life immortal. The work of man 
teaches life immortal, for that work is by God pur- 
posed as teaching. Then the work purposed as 
teaching finally teaches life. What does it teach? 
Firm purpose needed both in the work of man 
and in the work to find the worth which God pur- 
poses. Work to find worth? Yes, for life works 
for that always. None find worth forced, but all 
must work to find it. Why then may life of man 
work weakly? Because the Maker of Life wills 
that it be free while it works to work as it pleases. 
He wills then that life free in purpose find worth, 
yet life works as it pleases for that worth. But 



Work of Life in Man 27 

what must follows life while it works? The must 
of God's purpose. The will which God makes free 
then must win for life the worth which God pur- 
poses. For life which wills for itself whether it 
work well or ill He purposes worth found of free 
choice. 

Work for life worthy, man who would win free- 
dom. Work for life worthy? Must life find its 
worth through work? Why have the words we tell 
been told? To teach men that life worthy is found 
by work for it. Well the life works who wins free- 
dom, well the life purposes, and life worthy found 
through hard work for it wins the wider, fuller, 
freer life. Man who has life to free, think. Man 
who works is life for whom work is given that it be 
help. Will firm, purpose firm the life of man finds 
by God's purpose on earth. Work teaches firm 
purpose, firm will, and life finds its worth using 
the firm purpose and the firm will taught by work. 
For life its Maker purposes freedom won by its 
free purpose. Won is freedom then by the life who 
finds by the teaching of man's work firm purpose, 
firm will. 

Work God makes teaching for life of man; work 
of man is work of life in man ; then the work pur- 
posed to help life man has. When, by the firm 
purpose which work teaches life, it wins wider life, 
man has won it, for he purposes while life is man. 



28 Man's Life of Purpose 

The free purpose of life made fulfills the higher 
purpose of life's Maker. 

The work of life man has for his work. We who 
worked man's work know that we are lives who 
were men. That work which we did in the flesh 
of man we recognize now as the work of the life 
which continues through many men to this wider, 
fuller, better life. Man then, who works the daily 
work of earth, is the life who thus prepares for 
wider work. His work he does as he wishes, well 
or ill, but the well-finished man's work makes the 
life ready for wider work beyond man's life, while 
the ill-finished man's work leaves that life unpre- 
pared for work beyond that of earth. Life learns 
while it is man that which life needs when freed, 
the firm will which finishes work, the firm will which 
makes life worthy. Man wills for the life's earth 
work then, and his firm will wins for life its wider 
work. But will when weakly used leaves work un- 
finished; then the life is not worthy wider work. 
For life God purposes both wider life and wider 
work; for both man prepares. Then while man 
works he must remember the meaning of work. 
Work finished wins firm purpose; firm purpose 
wins wider life; wider life finds firm purpose won 
in man help in its wider work. 

Man works the work of life immortal which is 
purposed to teach that life firm purpose. Man 



Work of Life in Man 29 

works the work that teaches firm purpose for life 
that works wider work in freedom from earth. Man 
wills for that work using the power made life's 
power; man purposes for that work using life's 
power ; man thinks for that work using life's power. 
When man uses well those powers the life pur- 
posed wider work in wider life uses them well, and 
the firm purpose found through the teaching of 
work life takes to wider life's work. Those powers 
help man, they help life. Purposed wider life, pur- 
posed wider work, life is by the work of man taught 
wise use of the powers it will forever use. Think, 
who would win wider life. Think what use you 
must make of the powers you have as immortal life. 
Think well. 

When, freely purposing, life finds the worth 
which life must find in man, Will Higher frees that 
life from man and earth. But the life may for 
many lives in man be weak. Then that life works 
further the work purposed as teaching. But the 
purpose of God will finally be fulfilled; the weak 
life will find firm purpose; the life who wills for 
this man weakly will finally in a man will for life 
worthy. Then when man wills for life worthy his 
life finds fuller life, but when he wills for unworthi- 
ness his life finds further life on earth. Would 
the man who wills to-day wish the further man's 
life, weak perhaps, willing again unworthily per- 



30 Man's Life of Purpose 

haps? Would weak man win freedom for his life? 
Think, man of weak purpose; you will this life of 
man worthy or unworthy by free choice. Have we 
helped you to choose wisely? 

Work of life man has for his work. That work 
life finishes while it is man. That work man finishes 
well when for it he purposes firmly. Will that man 
uses, his free power, he uses finally to finish well 
life's work for earth purposed. Will for work fin- 
ished well life learns through that work which Will 
Higher gives to man. Will free man uses for that 
work, the free power of life personal. When that 
free power man uses firmly for the work of life, 
(his work that is, for he is life) , the life wins worth 
for wider work. But man wills freely for the work 
which life must finish on earth. Then by the free 
will of man, who wills work well or ill finished as 
he chooses, is the purposed work of life on earth 
finished. Will for work well then, man of earth; 
will for life then well. Your life works that it find 
wider life and work. You finish well, if you please, 
the life's earth work. All work done firnny helps 
life. While man wills the work of life for earth 
purposed must be finished. When for work man 
firmly purposes life firmly purposes. Life wider 
purposes for its wider work using the firm purpose 
found while it works on earth. Man finds that firm 
purpose when his will he uses well. Man who works 



Work of Life in Man 31 

for life well finds the firm purpose which life takes 
to wider life's work. Heed the word, man who 
works to-day. Will for your man's work firmly. 
Finish well that work to-day, and find help for that 
work through firm free purpose. For life man 
works, for life he purposes, for life he finds firm 
purpose. Well for work purpose then, man who 
wishes freed life. Your firm purpose well and wisely 
used for the man's work wins for the life firm pur- 
pose which life uses while it is. 

Think wisely, who would free life. Man wins 
freedom? No, life wins freedom. But life while 
it works man's work finds firm purpose. Who 
finds that firm purpose? Who frees life then? This 
man if he chooses. Then think, man of earth, think 
well. 

Thank God, O men, for His purpose for life. 
While the life is man it finds the worth for free- 
dom. While this man wills life finds firm purpose 
for life worthy if this man chooses. Will Higher 
purposes, life made fulfills His purpose by its own 
free purpose. Help this work for help with thy 
blessing, O God. 

Work of man is life's work for earth purposed. 
That life find firm purpose life's Maker wills; that 
through the teaching of work it find firm purpose 
He wills. That thought will help the man who 
works. The firm purpose which life learns, that 



32 Man's Life of Purpose 

firm purpose which life needs, that firm purpose 
which helps life both in man and when freed, man 
finds through his work. Will Higher made life for 
work; His purpose teaches life through work; man 
works because He wills; life works because He 
wills; that life find firm purpose man finds firm 
purpose. Then the man's work prepares life for 
the wider work that He who made life purposes. 
That life find firm purpose through work God wills, 
and His purpose life fulfills. Man wins through 
his finished work the firm purpose which helps life 
forever. Think, man of earth. You find that firm 
purpose which helps freed life when you thus choose. 

We, the lives who have finished man's work, we 
who live the wider life of wider work, would help 
men to thought of the meaning of man's work. 
Work of life man has for his work. The life who 
is purposed wider life works for teaching man's 
work of earth. Work helps life both while it is 
man and while it lives wider life. Work teaches 
life firm purpose. Man works life's earth work, 
wins for life by that work finished work wider, 
finishes that work well finally, (for thus man's Ma- 
ker purposes), wins by that work done well and 
finished well the firm purpose which helps life for- 
ever. That firm purpose which life finds by God's 
purpose it finds finally through the teaching of 
man's work. Man works the work purposed for 



Work of Life in Man 33 

life while it prepares for the wider life beyond 
earth. That work teaches life firm purpose which 
life wider uses while it is. Man works for life 
immortal. His work teaches life immortal. His 
work finished, life immortal finds wider life and 
wider work. The firm purpose that life purposed 
wider life uses in that wider life is learned while the 
life is man. What food for thought! Man who 
works finds for his immortal life the firm purpose 
which life wider holds to eternity. 

When man finishes well his work his life finds 
firm purpose. When man works weakly, finishing 
work not well, life finds but weak purpose. Firm 
purpose life finds by the higher purpose of life's 
Maker. Freed life has found firm purpose. Freed 
life holds firm the purpose won by man. Then the 
life profits by man's finished work. Think, man 
who would help life. Why was purpose made free? 
You will help life when free purpose you make 
firm, firm for both work and life worthy. Think 
well. 

Will Higher, who purposes for the life made by 
Him, purposes that life find help through firm 
purpose its own. When by firm purpose its own 
life finds the worth which Will Higher purposes 
that life in man shall find, He translates life to 
wider life. Man finds that firm purpose which 
makes life worthy the wider life purposed by God. 



34 Mans Life of Purpose 

Firm purpose helps life. That thought men find, 
but they think firm purpose helps for earth life 
only. The firm purpose which life finds by God's 
purpose while life is man helps life forever. We 
who tell for help this word found life worthy this 
wider life. We found firm purpose that helps life 
there where man works. The life wider uses while 
it wills for further worth the firm purpose won 
while it was man. 

Will Higher made life for worth. That life find 
through the teaching of work firm purpose He wills. 
But life He makes free. Life which is free fulfills 
the purpose of Omnipotence. Then life free wills 
bound to will as Purpose Higher wills? No, that 
would make life not free. Purpose of Higher Will 
makes life free. Purpose of free life fulfills His 
will. Man who purposes as he wishes finally pur- 
poses as Higher Will purposes. That finite life 
willed wider life finds the worth for wider life 
willing that worth itself. 

Wilberforce. 

The life works in man that work which God wills 
for life on earth. Man who is life immortal works 
the first work of life immortal. Then work which 
man has is teaching for life immortal. When man 
works well life finds the purposed teaching. When 
man works ill does life find teaching? Yes, all 



Work of Life in Man 35 

life's work is purposed for teaching. Man who 
works ill learns but little; only well-finished work 
teaches that which life is purposed to find while 
on earth, firm purpose. Well then work, O man. 
Your work wins for life firm purpose if you will. 
Think. 

When man finishes the work purposed for life on 
earth life finds wider work in wider life. Man wins 
for life immortal wider work then. What meaning 
this gives to man's work! Work that man has 
prepares life for wider life's work. But what 
life finds wider work? Man's life, and by man's 
will life works on earth. Then what man wins 
for life the wider work? The man who finishes 
to-day his work. Think, man who works for life, 
think wisely. 

The work of life man has for his work, the work 
which by life's own purpose must be finished well. 
Well life works finally in man, well life purposes 
finally in man ; well man works, well man purposes 
finally then, for life on earth is man. Yet the free 
purpose of life man uses. For his work, for his 
worth man purposes well when he chooses. But 
the life finally, though it be weak in many lives 
of man on earth, wills that which God purposes, 
for life wins finally its freedom, and freedom is not 
won until worth is found. Man wills as life for 
which worth is purposed; but for that worth life 



36 Man's Life of Purpose 

purposes itself. This man may be weak, but life 
then works further on earth. Penalty for weak- 
ness God wills, penalty through which life is taught 
wise use of its free purpose. Work purposed for 
teaching man has for his work to-day. Will he use 
his purpose well or weakly? Man chooses for him- 
self. 

Man purposes whether his work be well finished 
or ill as he pleases. But when he purposes that his 
work be weakly finished his life finds further man's 
life and work. Then man wins but further life of 
work on earth who works now weakly, for the man 
who wins but weak purpose wins not the worth 
which life must find by God's purpose. Only the 
life who finds firm purpose in man finds wider work 
and wider life. Think, O man. 

The work which man thinks weary teaches life for 
which God purposes wider work. Purpose firm life 
learns while it works man's work, purpose by which 
life finds its worth for higher life. Will Higher 
purposes well for life, and the life fulfills His pur- 
pose. All lives win firm purpose ; all lives are freed 
from earth; not one but fulfills the purpose of its 
Maker. Thank God, O men, for the purpose of 
Him who made you life. Will Higher, the will 
of omnipotent God, wills you worth. While work 
is for teaching purposed, work teaches only when 
the man wishes. The life who finds by the teaching 



Work of Life in Man 37 

of work firm purpose wins by that firm purpose 
the worth which God wills for life on earth. Thank 
God, O men, life wins firm purpose finally; your 
life will find that firm purpose, but when you your- 
self determine. You learn by the work you think 
weary firm purpose if you choose. Think, man 
who works; your life will profit thereby. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, life's Wilier, pur- 
poses for life forever, and life made fulfills His 
purpose. Weak though it be while in this man, 
finally it learns wise use of free will. Then man 
who is life finally wills for that which frees from 
earth, for by man's will life finds the worth pur- 
posed for earth. Yet free man is while he lives, 
and free will fulfills the purpose of Higher Will 
finally. That which life finds in man, firm will, it 
is purposed to find, but finds it by man's free pur- 
pose. God wills for life work; on earth the man's 
work, in life wider the life's wider work; yet life 
must find the firm will needed in life's wider work 
while it is man. 

Will Higher purposes that life while it works 
man's work prepare for life wider. Help man's 
work is, for life wins, through that work finished, 
fitness for wider work. Firm purpose work finally 
teaches. Firm purpose wins for life its worth for 
wider life. Firm purpose won by life in man helps 
life forever. Firm purpose life first finds in man. 



38 Mans Life of Purpose 

Firm purpose won by life in man life holds for 
always. Thought helpful, man who works. 

Will of life, free though it be, must finish that 
work which God purposes for life on earth. While 
life works in the man life wins by God's purpose 
its own firm purpose. That firm purpose won 
through life in man life takes to wider life. Then 
while life is man it learns that which helps wider 
life. For that firm purpose life works in this man 
if this man chooses. That thought helps the man 
who will have help. Man himself finds, and the man 
himself must find, that firm purpose by which life 
wins worth for life beyond earth. That firm pur- 
pose which helps life for worth forever life finds 
first in man. What help this thought will be de- 
pends on the man himself. 

Man wills that his life find worth of free will, 
but man was willed work that work be teaching for 
his life. Personal life, man's self, works the work 
which, purposed for teaching, finally teaches life 
personal that which God purposes, firm will, firm 
purpose. When life finds the firm will, finds the 
firm purpose, depends on the life itself, for God 
makes life free; yet that which life is purposed to 
find it finally finds. Why may life will weakly? 
Because God makes it free. Then weak life finally 
becomes firm for life worthy because God teaches 
it. Yes, life becomes worthy wider life finally; not 



Work of Life in Man 39 

one but becomes worthy, but man who wills weakly 
is man for further life on earth. You who think, 
find wisdom in our words. 

Work of man teaches life, for thus Will Higher 
purposes, but work teaches when man chooses to 
learn. Firm purpose which life finds by the higher 
purpose of God man finds by the wise use of free 
purpose. What for life purposes Will Higher? 
That by free purpose it win freedom. But free pur- 
pose may be unworthily used. Then the life who 
thus uses the purpose which must win the worth 
for freedom wins but worth for earth. The work 
purposed for life by God teaches life finally, for 
thus Will Higher purposes ; but until man purposes 
wisely life works on earth. Heed the word, O man. 

Work is help for life while life is. Man's work 
helps man; freed life's work helps that life. When 
through firm purpose won on earth life wins wider 
life, that firm purpose it holds forever. Food for 
wise thinking in this, O men. Heed the word we 
give you, man who would find wider life. Your 
firm purpose must win the wider life. Think well, 
man who has life to free. 

The work which man has, being life's work for 
earth, man must finish. That man wills for his work 
as he wishes changes not the Purpose who wills for 
life. Man uses in the work of life the free will of 
life. The man who uses free will then has the work 



40 Man's Life of Purpose 

given to life for its earth work to finish. God pur- 
poses for the life wider work when the man's work 
is finished. His purpose life fulfills while it wills 
of free will. Then life for which wider work is 
purposed wills itself when it be worthy wider work. 
Wider life works the wider life's work prepared for 
that work by the work of man. Help work is by 
God purposed to be; help it is when life finishes 
it well. Will free man uses always. His free will 
finishes well life's earth work, and prepares his life 
immortal for wider work and higher life. Think, 
who work weakly. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills by its 
free purpose finally, is Will Omnipotent. He pur- 
poses that life find finally worth for life wider. 
While it is man life wins that worth. Then man 
who wills as he pleases fulfills the higher purpose 
of God when by free purpose he wins worth for 
wider life. Think, who will to-day. While you will 
life wills. Will free you have. Whether that will 
wins the worth that frees or the weakness that holds 
life to earth you determine. What will you will? 
You choose for yourself. 

That life work while it is man Will Higher pur- 
poses; that life find firm purpose while it is man 
He purposes. Man works that life find firm pur- 
pose. For wider life the life of man prepares ; for 
wider work the work of man prepares. While life 



Work of Life in Man 41 

works firm purpose it must find; while life works 
the man's work that purpose must be won. Man 
is the life who finds firm purpose. But man is 
free. Then life finds firm purpose when man 
chooses. The work of life man has; by that work 
finished well he finds for life the firm purpose which 
helps life in the wider life of freedom. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills, made life 
man. While life is man it finishes the work pur- 
posed to teach firm purpose. For life man works. 
His firm purpose is life's firm purpose. Well for 
life man purposes finally, for life finds freedom. 
The firm purpose that man finds helps in the wider 
work of life freed. What for life purposes the man 
who works life's work to-day? For life worthy he 
may purpose, for life weak he may purpose. That 
purpose which man finds life finds. Firm purpose 
frees life; weak purpose keeps life to work of man. 
Think, man who wills for life; think well. 

That work which man finds help is help for life 
itself. Firm purpose life finds through the work of 
man. That thought heed, man who works for life. 
The will for work man finds help. That help is 
help for life itself. Then what has life found when 
man works firmly? That purpose firm which helps 
life wider. Think, man of earth. Work for that 
firm purpose ; work your man's work that life find 
firm purpose. 



42 Man's Life of Purpose 

That purpose which man finds through work well 
finished helps life for its wider work. Man finds for 
life the firm purpose which it holds in freed life 
to eternity. Man finds that firm purpose when he 
wishes. Man then, when he wishes, finds the firm 
purpose which helps life forever. 

Miltiades. 

The life who works well, finishing the man's work, 
finds wider work ; the life who works weakly finishes 
but part of the work for earth. Man wills that life 
work well, for he is life. Will for work well, then, 
man who would find life freed. 

Man, the lif e who works on earth, has powers that 
life holds while it is. Man thinks; life owns that 
mind which thinks. Man wills; life owns that will. 
Man purposes; life owns that purpose. What use 
then must man make of those powers of life ? Think, 
man who is life, think wisely. 

The purpose of man finds help when man finishes 
well the work he has. The purpose helps life 
when by man made firm. Work teaches purpose 
if man chooses. What meaning in this word ! Help 
men to understand, we pray thee, O God. 

Full of meaning the thought we tell. Work pur- 
posed for teaching man has. That work helps life 
for which life wider is purposed, for through the 
work of man life finds the firm purpose which it 



Work of Life in Man 43 

takes to life wider. 

The work which helps man helps life. Purposed 
for teaching, purposed to teach will and purpose, 
man's work teaches when the man wishes. Then 
this day work well, man of earth ; this day will and 
purpose well, for this work you to-day have helps 
purpose if you choose. 

That life find firm purpose through the work of 
man Will Higher purposes. Then that firm pur- 
pose man finds himself, for Will Higher makes life 
free in purpose. When life finds firm purpose by 
man's work Will Higher wills for that life wider 
work in freedom. What thought for help! Will 
of man himself, purpose of man himself must win 
the worth which frees life immortal. Only when 
life has found firm purpose does God will for it 
freedom. 

Man who works life's earth work is life purposed 
worth. Man wins for life the worth which life 
finds on earth. Work teaches, when the man 
chooses, firm will and purpose. Then work is pur- 
posed help for life in man, and the life learns when 
man learns the firm will and purpose by which 
life wins wider life. Man who has life's free pur- 
pose, think. 

That life find firm purpose while it is man God 
purposes; that life find firm purpose itself He pur- 
poses. He purposes work for teaching of life, the 



44 Man's Life of Purpose 

man's work for earth, wider work for life beyond 
earth. Found by life in man, for thus God pur- 
poses, must be the firm purpose which life will use 
in wider life's work. Think, man of work. Your 
firm purpose wins for life beyond earth help for 
its wider work. 

That life who works, finishing well its work of 
earth, finds wider life, for that which work is pur- 
posed to teach that life has learned. Firm purpose 
life learns by the teaching of work. That firm pur- 
pose used for worth frees life from man. Then 
man who works well helps life to win freedom. 
Help men to think wisely, O God, we pray thee. 

Work helps life. Will Higher places life on 
earth, wills for that life work for teaching, wills 
that by work life find firm purpose, wills that life 
hold in wider life the firm purpose won by life in 
man, purposes that by the firm purpose won 
through life of work on earth life immortal find 
the worth that frees, purposes for that life wider 
worth found of firm purpose, wills for life finally 
worth for His presence. That worth life finds 
freely purposing, and wisely using the firm purpose 
which life finds by man's free choice. Help men 
to understand, we pray thee, O God. 

Will free, man's power, wins that worth of life 
which brings freedom. Purpose, man's purpose, 
wins for life that which Higher Purpose wills. Will 



Work of Life in Man 45 

that life uses in man wins freedom from man. Pur- 
pose that life uses in man keeps life freed worthy. 
What word would be more helpful, man who works ? 
That work which you have to-day wins firm will 
and purpose if you will have them. Why wait 
then, man who has life to free? 

Will Higher purposes that life learn through the 
teaching of man's life the firm purpose which wider 
life uses. Then free will and purpose that life uses 
in the work of man will finally, through the teach- 
ing of that work, become firm will and purpose. 
Will Higher purposes that by the life of work 
on earth life personal find firm purpose. By the 
firm purpose taught through work life finds its 
worth. 

Work teaches life; while life is work teaches. 
Man works first work of life immortal. Man finds 
through his work, when he wishes to find it, the 
firm purpose which life holds forever. When man 
wins firm purpose life immortal has found it. For 
that life who finds firm purpose on earth God wills 
freedom and wider, happier, fuller life. What food 
for thought here, O men ! 

Work teaches life. When the life firmly pur- 
poses for work choosing firm purpose, that helps 
life to find firm purpose for worth. Purpose firm 
helps life for whom wider life is by God purposed 
both while it is man, and when freed. Purpose 



46 Man's Life of Purpose 

firm must help life in man if the life would win 
freedom. Man who purposes weakly, think. 

Purpose worth firmly, man who wishes this better 
life. Work for firm purpose now; will with pur- 
pose helping now; firm purpose wins freedom. 
What will this man find, firm purpose that wins 
freedom, or weak purpose that wins life of man 
again? Each man chooses for himself. 

Work that life finishes on earth helps to firm 
purpose which life must find before God frees it. 
Work happy man thinks his work when by it he 
wins the man's welfare, but his work is for more 
than life on earth. That work which man has, work 
purposed by God, is teaching for life who finds 
wider life and work. Then the work for man's 
welfare, done and finished well, helps life for whom 
wider life is purposed. Think, man who works. 
Happy will your work be when you remember why 
you work. For life immortal you work; that life 
immortal find firm purpose you work. Help this 
word for help by thy blessing, O God. 

Will Higher wills that life work for life higher 
while it lives man's life. Man's work He wills to 
be teaching for life. The purposed teaching which 
life finds on earth prepares it for wider life. Work 
helps life while it is. Man's work helps the life 
while it is on earth, wider work helps freed life. 
What food for thought for men! We tell it for 



Work of Life in Man 47 

help. Think for life, man who works. Your work 
teaches life immortal. 

Man works life's first work. He purposes for 
that work using the purpose of life itself. That firm 
purpose for work which life finds through man's 
work helps life for its higher work. Then man 
wills that life find firm purpose who wills his man's 
work firmly finished. That thought will help men 
who work, we hope. 

Firm purpose won while life is man helps life 
while it is. That firm purpose for life worthy that 
wins freedom man finds. Willed to find firm pur- 
pose, life finds it when man wishes. That firm 
purpose found by life when man chooses, found 
by the life who wills to find it, helps the life wider 
while life is. 

Man thinks his work is for the life of earth only. 
Man thinks his work helps life of man only. Life 
immortal works man's work, life purposed wider 
life works for wider w T ork while it is man. Help 
that work is by Will Higher purposed to be for 
both man and life freed. Work purposed for teach- 
ing man has. For that purposed work man wills 
by free will. That free will finishes for life the 
work of man. What finds that life who finishes 
man's work? Better work, wider life, firm purpose 
that life holds while it is. Man who wills for his 
work helps life immortal when by firm purpose he 



48 Mans Life of Purpose 

works well. Think, who work man's work. Think 
for life while you work. Firm purpose life will 
find when you find firm purpose. Think well. 



Ill 

MAN THE LIFE IMMORTAL 



MAN THE LIFE IMMORTAL 

Dr. Coulter. 

MAN" is the life who wills. That he win 
freedom himself God wills. His will, 
being free, he uses for worth or un- 
worthiness as he wishes. Then life it- 
self thus uses will. Man, being life immortal, wills 
for life immortal. Then he wills the worth or the 
unworthiness of that life immortal. But God pur- 
poses that life immortal finally will worth. His 
purpose life that He made must fulfill. Then life 
in man fulfills God's purpose finally. Willing for 
worth, life wins the wider life which by God's pur- 
pose life must win. God's purpose makes life free 
in will; His purpose life fulfills by the willed free 
will. Man, who is life purposed wider, fuller life, 
finds that life by his use of free will. Then life 
finally wills for worth in man, and, thus willing, 
fulfills God's purpose. 

Man who lives the life purposed as teaching for 
wider life is life immortal. Then life immortal is 
taught by the work of man, taught by its mistakes 

51 



52 Man's Life of Purpose 

in the life of man, taught until it learns that which 
by God's purpose life of self must learn, wise use 
of free will and purpose. Will of life personal, 
being free, man uses as he chooses. Then his life 
wills as it chooses worth or unworthiness. Yet that 
life for which worth is by God purposed finds the 
worth purposed. Each life finally finds that pur- 
posed worth. The man who last incarnates life 
purposed higher, worthier life than that of earth, 
finds the purposed worth of man's life. Then that 
man wills as his Maker purposes, and that life wins 
the higher life of freedom from earth. Purpose of 
God makes life immortal personal self whose will 
is free; but He wills that by wise use of personal 
free will life must find finally the worth which He 
purposes. Wise life becomes through the teaching 
of man's work and life. Then the purpose of Him 
who made life personal must by the power of life 
personal be fulfilled, and life of free will, which 
is by God purposed higher life, finds the worth 
for higher life through its own free will and pur- 
pose. 

The life which Will Higher made immortal is 
man on earth. That life while it is man learns 
that which fits it for wider life. By God's pur- 
pose life immortal wins first worth in man on earth. 
That worth, willed for life from the creation of the 
universe, man finds himself. Then man who wills 



Man the Life Immortal 53 

his worth himself fulfills the purpose of Him who 
made him life immortal. 

Man wills using personal free will. That will is 
the free power of life immortal. That power life 
holds while it is. Free life is to will that which it 
chooses both while it is man and forever. Man, the 
free life personal, wills that which he wishes, though 
his life is by higher purpose bound. Free while 
it wills to will worth or unworthiness, free to use 
man's life as it pleases, that life which is thus free 
is yet by Higher Will ruled. God purposes for 
the life which He made free personal self. His 
purpose that life finally fulfills using the free power 
which God gives. Man, the life personal, fulfills 
by his personal free will the purpose of God. Will 
Higher made man personal life whose will is neces- 
sarily free. Will Higher wills for the life whom 
He made free. Why then may life which is by 
Higher Will ruled will for itself that which He 
purposes not? Will Higher made life free in will; 
that answers. None may forbid the will of God, 
but He permits to the being whom He made per- 
sonal life the use of free will. Worth purposed 
then is found by free will. The fuller life which 
God purposes is won by life in man. By free will 
that life is won. Man wills his worth of life him- 
self. Though man uses for his life worthy free will, 
God purposes that life in man find life worthy. 



54 Man's Life of Purpose 

But while life is man, and while it is, the will is 
free. Man wills his worth using the will which God 
makes free. Then that power which God makes 
power of life personal fulfills His purpose for life 
personal. Life wills its worth itself. 

The life of man is personal self. That life wins 
the worth for personal wider life, wins it by per- 
sonal free will. That free power is made man's 
power that life in man find its worth using free 
choice. Man wills his worth of life himself, though 
that worth is by God purposed. Free will of life 
man has. That free power, made life's power by 
God, fulfills finally His purpose. Will for life 
worthy man finds as life which must find that will. 
Purpose of life's Maker for life personal must be 
fulfilled by the personal free will. 

Will Higher made life for earth man. Will 
Higher made man physical for life of earth only, 
but life of self He made immortal. That life win 
through the man's life worth for the wider life He 
wills ; that life find by work of man firm purpose He 
wills; that life win by its own firm purpose the 
worth for wider life He wills. Man who lives earth 
life is life purposed freedom from earth. Man 
who purposes for life of earth purposes finally for 
the wider life that God wills. We who were men 
remember our life of earth, remember the many lives 
of earth which taught us. We have won the wider 



Man the Life Immortal 55 

life. The worth of man freed us, but God willed 
that we find that worth of our own purpose. We 
thank Him now for His purpose that life find 
worth for itself. By firm purpose life wins free- 
dom. That firm purpose which frees life life holds 
to eternity. Well for man who wills weakly, who 
purposes unworthiness, who lives man's life think- 
ing only for that life, to consider well our word. 

We who were men, who remember the lives of 
man which taught us, would help men to under- 
standing of the man's life. Man is life which finally 
wins this life. His life immortal wills in the phys- 
ical body which lives but the physical life. The 
self of man, his immortal being, lives while the 
world is, while time is, lives to eternity. Man is 
life purposed wider, fuller, happier life than that 
of earth. Man wins that wider life while he is 
life on earth. Man wins this life, being purposed 
this life, but wins it through his free purpose. Man 
wins this life himself. What meaning this gives 
to the life of earth! Think, who live man's life, 
think well. 

Man who lives his earth life by the will of life's 
Maker has for help in that life the powers of life 
immortal. Mind, will, purpose were made life's 
powers. They win, when the man wishes, the worth 
for wider life. Man thinks that his life of earth 
prepares for higher life, but thinks little of what 



56 Man's Life of Purpose 

he has for help to win the higher life. Will is for 
life purposed to be help; purpose is for life pur- 
posed to be help; life thinks in man the thought 
of life immortal. Man who purposes what his life 
shall be wins, when he purposes wisely, wider life 
for personal self immortal. Will of man is will 
of life, purpose of man is purpose of life. Man's 
will, his life's immortal power, he uses well or ill 
as he chooses, for he was made free; yet by that 
power man prepares life immortal for wider life. 
What food for thought here! Heed the word, man 
of earth. 

Man has life that Will Higher made immortal. 
Will of life personal he uses while he is life on earth. 
Will for life personal is free, and the worth pur- 
posed for life of man is by free will won. Man, the 
life of personal self, finds by free will the worth 
purposed for life while it is on earth. Life wider 
wills that life find yet wider worth, but while life 
is man the man's worth is that which the life finds. 
Will free wins that worth. From man freed, life 
personal, immortal self, wills to eternity wider and 
wider worth. But man's wise use of the power 
which God makes free wins the first wider life of 
personal self. Think, who will for life to-day, that 
life win freedom. Wide life becomes by His pur- 
pose who made it. Wide life begins when man, 
using free power of life, makes his immortal life 



Man the Life Immortal 57 

worthy freedom from earth. Think well, you who 
to-day will for life. 

Will Higher, will of Him who made life man, 
purposes for that life while it is man, while it is. 
The will of man He made man's power; the pur- 
pose of man He made man's power; His purpose 
man fulfills using the will and purpose which He 
gives. Man, who is willed the powers of life immor- 
tal, wills that which the Higher Will purposes 
finally, though life is willed free will. Man who 
has willed purpose finally by that willed purpose 
fulfills the purpose of the Wilier of Life. Man, the 
life immortal, wins the life wider purposed by 
Higher Will through wise use of his free will and 
purpose. What food for thought here! Man, the 
life of free will, by free will fulfills the purpose of 
his Maker. When life willed worth finds worth 
of free will, that life fulfills the purpose of its 
Maker. Man who has life to free, think. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, purposes that by 
man's worth life of personal self win wider life. 
Man then himself wins the wider life which God 
purposes. Work for that life, man who has the 
powers of life immortal. Work teaches firm pur- 
pose. Will for work finished well, purpose for life 
worthy, man who would win wider life. Man him- 
self wins that freedom for which life was made. 
Think, who work man's work; think, who purpose 



58 Maris Life of Purpose 

for man's life. Will that helps life when you 
choose, purpose that wins worth when you choose 
you have from your Maker. Think well, O man. 

When must man win the worth which Will 
Higher purposes? When his man's life finds wish 
for worth. Man himself wins wider life for per- 
sonal self. When life in man wins hy free will 
the worth which life finds finally by God's purpose 
man fulfills his must. What man finds worth? The 
man who thus wills. Heed the word, O man. 

Will Higher, who purposes for life while it is, 
wills for life that it be man while it prepares for 
wider, fuller life. What for man purposes Higher 
Will? That he work for life; that he find worth 
for life; that by will, his free power, he win that 
worth which prepares for wider life; that his power 
free purpose win for life freedom from earth. Well 
for life purposes that Higher Will. All wills ful- 
fill His will finally. Man, the life purposed life 
wider, makes that life worthy by free purpose his 
own, thus fulfilling finally, and by the purpose of 
his Maker fulfilling well, the wise Purpose who 
purposes for life while it is. Then man who pur- 
poses his worth himself fulfills Will Higher. Man 
wills, free to will worth or weakness, but finally 
life while it is man fulfills God's purpose. When 
free purpose wins worth life finds the purposed 
wider life. When free purpose wins freedom man 



Man the Life Immortal 59 

has won it. We tell helpful thought. Man who 
would win wider life, think what it means for you. 

The life who wills as man, who lives earth life, 
was made for wider life finally than that of man on 
earth. Man who lives life brief, has for help the 
powers of life immortal. Man who wills for the 
little work of earth, wills using the power with 
which life immortal wills forever. Then the life 
who, as man, wills on earth prepares there for the 
wider life purposed by life's Maker. Wider life 
begins when man's life finishes. Self immortal man 
is, whose power, personal free will, man uses to 
win the worth purposed when life was made. That 
work which man has is part of the work of life 
immortal. Man then works by his Maker's purpose 
the work purposed as teaching for life immortal. 
Will for work life learns there where it is man. 
Firm purpose that life needs when freed life learns 
there where it is man. Life wider man wins by 
free will of life immortal. Will for life worthy 
man finds because life is willed to find that will, 
yet while man wills his will, the free power of life 
immortal, he uses as he wishes. But what work 
has man? The work purposed for life as teach- 
ing. Then man the life learns finally wise use of 
free will. That wise use learned by life of its 
Maker's purpose makes life of man worthy wider 
life. Then the life who wills freely finally wills 



60 Man's Life of Purpose 

for the worth purposed by its Maker. When man, 
life purposed worth, wins worth by his free choice, 
man finds the worth which wins the wider life pur- 
posed for life immortal from the willing of all. 

That will which man has, the free power of life 
immortal, was made the power of personal self. 
Man uses that power to work the life's work for 
earth purposed. Work that man has, being life's 
work for earth, man finishes. When by will free 
man finishes that work well, life personal, man's 
self, finds wider, fuller life. Then this man who 
wills for the work of life immortal may will that 
life find wider life. What food for thought of 
men here! Will free, man's will, this time used 
well, may, nay will make life immortal ready for 
the wider life, freed from man's weakness, full 
with wider thought, wider faith, wider wisdom. 
Heed the word, man of free will. Why let will be 
weak? Why fail to win the life wider? You choose 
yourself whether life find freedom or work man's 
work again. Think well, O man. 

Wilberforce. 

Will Higher made life, placed it where it is man, 
wills for that life worth found by will of man, helps 
that life while it is man and forever. What will 
uses man for the purposed worth? His free will. 
Then life wills purposed worth by man's free will. 



Man the Life Immortal 61 

But man is the life who wills. Then what worth 
does life will on earth? The man's worth. Will 
for life worthy man finds by purpose of his Maker. 
That will is free, but finally the life, while it is yet 
man, finds the will for life worthy. Self man is, 
personal self whose power, will, is necessarily free. 
Then life of self while it is man finds the worth 
which God purposes for that life. While that life 
is earth life it finds worth for higher life. Then 
life for which worth is purposed finds that worth 
using its own free will. 

Work of man is the work for earth of life immor- 
tal. Man wills for the worth of life immortal. 
Man's life, being self, wills that which he wishes, 
but that life, being willed worth, finds the pur- 
posed worth. Man wills as life of personal self. 
What purpose has personal life? Its own purpose. 
What will has personal self? Will wholly free. 
Then the purposed worth self personal finds using 
for that worth its own will and purpose. But 
worth found by personal life is purposed worth, and 
by God's purpose life personal must win its worth 
itself. Full of wisdom for men is the word I tell. 
Think, man who lives the earth life, think well. 

Will Higher purposes for the life which he made 
man while that life works on earth, while that life 
is. His purpose makes man life personal ; His pur- 
pose wills that life personal find wider, fuller life. 



62 Man's Life of Purpose 

The worth for wider personal life that life wins 
of its own will and purpose. Man is that life who 
wins freedom. His purpose, weak though it be for 
a time, finally wins the worth that permits freedom. 
What follows from this? Will Higher purposes 
for life personal wider life won by itself. That 
purpose life finally fulfills. Then man who wills 
and purposes well is the life who finds freedom; 
weak life wins but further life of man. When life 
finds freedom it is personal life which finds it. Find 
freedom man's life will, but we know it must find 
the worth for wider life using its own free will and 
purpose. 

Will Higher, whose purpose all that He made 
fulfills, made life for earth man. His purpose for 
that life the life itself fulfills using its own free 
will and purpose. Man who wills that worth of 
life which permits wider life thus fulfills God's pur- 
pose. But man who wills unworthily fulfills not 
God's purpose. Then that life is held to man the 
earth dweller till it learns wise use of the will and 
purpose by which it must fulfill its Maker's pur- 
pose. Man wills his worth himself, but life pur- 
posed worth must find it. Then God's purpose for 
life which He made immortal is by man himself 
fulfilled. Think, who will weakly. You find that 
worth by which life fulfills God's purpose if you 
thus choose. 



Man the Life Immortal 63 

Work which man finds help is the work purposed 
to be teaching for life. Work teaches finally by 
God's purpose firm purpose. While man purposes 
for man's work then, he purposes for life which 
finds worth finally. Yet that purpose may be 
weak. Then life which finds purpose weak remains 
man, while life that finds firm purpose finds wider 
life. What? Firm purpose alone wins freedom? 
No, firm purpose won is won by life itself, but that 
firm purpose wins but further man's life of work 
unless it be used for life worthy. Think who read. 
Find firm purpose life may, yet win but man's 
life again. You the life personal find wider life 
when the power made yours for help is wisely used. 
Think what you read. Find firm purpose life may, 
yet win but life of man again. Think wisely, life 
of man. 

Will Higher makes life personal self. Will free 
of personal life wins the personal worth which wins 
freedom. Will for life worthy life finds first while 
willing for man's life. That will for worthy life 
the life of personal self takes to freedom. When 
life wins that will it has found that which wins 
freedom. What help this thought may bring to 
men ! The life personal man is ; that firm will which 
wins freedom the life personal finds itself. Will 
for life worthy, man who is free. That will helps 
life while life is. You find that will when you 



64 Mans Life of Purpose 

choose. Think wisely, O man. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, was when life of man 
was not. His purpose follows the life which he 
made man while it purposes for higher, worthier 
life, freed from the work of man, freed from man's 
weak purpose, freed then from the life of earth. 
For that life He purposes wider worth than that of 
man. Freed life brings from the man's life firm 
will, firm purpose, that are won through the teach- 
ing of its life on earth. Man who thinks, find help 
from this word. Man himself finds for life freed 
the firm will and purpose which that life needs. 
Think well. 

The life of man on earth is personal life. That 
life who purposes in man finally wins higher life, 
yet life of man it finds help by God's purpose. The 
work of man, the life of man, teach personal self 
immortal. Work is purposed to teach firm pur- 
pose; worth of life is won by firm purpose; that 
firm purpose which work teaches finally wins for 
life the wider life which God purposes. That wider 
life which self personal must find is won by the firm 
purpose which life is taught in man. That firm 
purpose taught life on earth wins life's worth while 
life lasts. 

This life freed from man is won by man; this 
life worthy is won by man. We tell this for help, 
man of earth. The higher life of self is won by the 



Man the Life Immortal 65 

life of self on earth. Man is that life who purposes 
finally the worth which wins this life. What mean- 
ing there for men! God, we pray Thee, bless our 
word to help. 

When man purposes well life thus purposes. 
Man who purposes for the man's life well purposes 
for life itself well. Then this man who now pur- 
poses well prepares life immortal for wider life. 
Think what life finds by the purpose of its Maker, — 
life wider. But how must life win wider life? 
Through its own wise use of its powers in man. 
Then, man who has life's power, free purpose, win 
life wider this time you may. Think well. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life for whom He 
wills worth fulfills, wills, while life is man, for that 
life worth found by itself. Then man who firmly 
wills for his life worth fulfills the purpose of his 
Maker. But when will for worth is found man 
chooses himself. Then man fulfills God's purpose 
when he thus wishes. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life free in purpose 
fulfills, made man personal self. When by purpose 
free man finds worth, life finds it. When life finds 
that worth which Will Higher purposes for life of 
man, He frees that life from earth. Well has man 
purposed when life finds freedom. Think, who 
would win wider life. Will you know is free wins 
your worth. Think well. 



66 Man's Life of Purpose 

Will Higher, life's Maker, purposes for that life 
which He made that by will free it fulfill His 
purpose. Man the life immortal fulfills the pur- 
pose of life's Maker then, for that which Higher 
Will purposes life made by Him must fulfill. But 
to life He wills free will, which free will man uses. 
Then man as life purposed worth, but with free will, 
fulfills the higher purpose of God. What purposes 
the Maker of Life for that life? What for life 
purposes He while life is man? That life while it 
is man find worth for wider, fuller life. What for 
life purposes He further? That by will its own 
it fulfills His purpose while it is. The purpose of 
Him who made life free is by free life fulfilled. 
Man the life finds finally that worth which Higher 
Will purposes, for the worth which wins freedom 
life finds surely. 

Will Higher, will of Life Infinite, made life 
finite man. While finite life purposes Will Higher 
purposes for it. Then life made fulfills the higher 
purpose. But life willed worth wins that worth 
by free will. Not forced, but taught, life immortal 
wins freedom and wider life. Will free, that power 
which God purposes to be help, finally becomes the 
help He purposes. Will free wins man's worth of 
life. That free power made life's immortal power 
finally wins for life the worth purposed when life 
was made. 



Man the Life Immortal 67 

Will Higher, whose purpose life which He made 
fulfills, made man the worker of life's work for 
earth purposed. Then that work man finishes. 
While life purposes for that work it learns wise 
use of free purpose. Man who wills for life wins 
the first worth of life immortal. When life has 
finished the work for earth purposed wider life be- 
gins. But wider life must be won by man's firm 
purpose, for he is the life who purposes on earth. 
Remember this, who would win wider life. Man 
who wills for life immortal, who by his free purpose 
makes life immortal worthy, wins thus for life im- 
mortal the wider life purposed when life was made. 

Miltiades. 

The will of life personal, which life personal wins 
the wider life of freedom, man has to use for his 
life of earth. That personal life who wills firmly 
for worth finds worth. Man who wills and pur- 
poses for himself wills and purposes for life immor- 
tal. When that worth which life finds in man wins 
for life immortal its freedom, the personal life has 
won freedom. That life which finds worth for free- 
dom is man for earth. Then will free of personal 
man wins freedom for immortal personal life. 

Will free of life personal, will of man then, wins 
this higher life. That which personal life finds, 
worth for this higher life, it finds itself. Man wills 



68 Mans Life of Purpose 

for worth or for unworthiness as he wishes. Worth 
brings this higher life ; unworthiness brings further 
life on earth. Man who has life personal, whose 
will is free, think. 

Purpose of Him who made life man follows that 
life through earth life, follows that life forever. 
Man is life purposed wider, fuller life. His wise 
use of his own free purpose brings his worth. 
Worth won by man himself wins freedom. Man 
who wills weakly wills that his life wait for freedom. 
We know that this word is true. Heed it, man of 
weak will. 

Will free man has. That power is his for wise 
use. He wins freedom by wise use of his free will. 
Man wins wider life than by his free choice. Yes, 
for his worth he finds choosing worth himself. 
What helps life then? Firm will, firm for life 
worthy. That firm will, wisely used, wins freedom. 
What worth wins freedom? The worth man finds 
himself. That worth man finds when he chooses. 
Well for life purposes Will Higher. That free 
power which He gives to man wins by His purpose 
freedom for life immortal. 

That life in man help life immortal God pur- 
poses. Each life learns finally the lesson that work 
of man teaches; each life wins finally its wider life. 
While purpose remains weak life remains man; 
when purpose firm is won life wins worth for life 



Man the Life Immortal 69 

wider. Each personal life, taught finally by life in 
man, finds higher life. The purpose of life's Maker 
follows life while it is man, follows life forever. 

For man, the life immortal who wins freedom, 
worth for freedom is by Will Higher willed. For 
life who wills by free will worth for wider and wider 
life is by God willed. Help firm purpose is by 
God willed to be. Man finds that firm purpose by 
which life wins worth to immortality. 

Purpose of man wisely used wins wider life for 
immortal life. The worth by which life is made 
ready for wider life is by man found. What has 
man for help while he finds worth for wider life? 
Purpose free. Man wins by purpose free the worth 
that wins for life immortal the higher life of free- 
dom. 

Will Higher, life's Wilier, purposes that life find 
while it is man firm purpose. That purpose which 
man has, the free purpose of life immortal, man 
uses as he wishes. But for life that He made God 
purposes worth. Found by life in man, then, must 
be the worth which prepares for life wider. What 
food for thought here! Win wider life man may 
this time. Why wait then to find firm purpose, 
man of life immortal, why wait? 

Man who works life's work that life find firm 
purpose, think. Work teaches life firm purpose 
when it teaches man firm purpose. Work for firm 



70 Man's Life of Purpose 

purpose, then, man who has life to free. Heed 
the word we tell for help, man who wishes freedom. 
Your firm purpose will win it when that firm pur- 
pose well used wins for life worth. Heed the word, 
O man. 

Man wins by his firm purpose worth for wider 
life. Man, life immortal, finds that purposed worth 
by which life is made ready for wider life. Pur- 
posed worth, willed free purpose, life who wishes 
worth finds that worth freely purposing. Then 
man who firmly purposes wins for life immortal 
the wider life. 

Will Higher, who made life of man personal self, 
wills that personal life win the life wider. Man 
then wins that life, for man on earth is life personal. 
What man wins wider life? The man who wills 
worth firmly, who makes life worthy freedom choos- 
ing worth ; the man who works, finishing work ; the 
man who finishes life's earth work well; that man 
wins the life wider. Think, man who lives the life 
of personal self. You win for life wider life if you 
thus purpose. While the man is life he may win 
that worth. Think well, O man. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, life of perfect worth, 
made life which finds finite worth. Man is life pur- 
posed finite worth. The life finite fulfills by free 
will the purpose of Life Higher. Man wills for 
worth by God's purpose finally. Will free finally 



Man the Life Immortal 71 

becomes wise will free. Man, the life purposed 
wider life, finds the worth for wider life himself. 
The purpose for life finite of the Will who purposes 
for all will be finally fulfilled. Man the life immor- 
tal wins the life wider purposed when life was by 
Will Higher made. 

When life finds wider life man's will free has 
won it. Man wills using the free will of life im- 
mortal. That free power man uses well if he thus 
chooses. Then this man may thus use it. When 
this life who wills in this man chooses worth it finds 
worth. Think, man of will free, think well. 

Will Higher made life which is for earth man. 
His will, the power who made all that is beside 
Himself, purposes for life while it wills for wider 
life. While life is Will Higher wills for it; while 
life works it has His purpose to fulfill. Man who 
is made free wins by free will the worth which 
Higher Will purposes for life on earth; man who 
finds worth freely willing finds finally that worth 
which Higher Will purposes. Why let life wait 
to fulfill God's purpose, man who is life immortal. 
Why work weakly, why purpose weakly? You 
know from freed life the word of truth. Heed it, 
O men. 



IV 

WORK THAT HELPS LIFE 



WORK THAT HELPS LIFE 



Dr. Coulter. 

TS" T^ORK that life must finish while it 
% /% / is on earth man has for his work. 
W W That work helps firm purpose. 

That life find while in man firm pur- 
pose He wills who makes life free. Work teaches 
firm purpose; work helps life then, for life needs 
both for work and for worth firm purpose. By 
God's purpose life finishes well its earth work be- 
fore He frees it; by His purpose life finds firm 
purpose through work of man. But man purposes 
weakly perhaps ; then the firm purpose which frees 
life is not found, and life remains working the 
earth work. That work which helps life man has 
for his work. Heed the word, man who works 
weakly. All work helps you when well finished; 
even work distasteful helps. Then work believ- 
ing the word we tell. Work you have to-day helps 
life if you choose. 

Man works knowing that his work depends on 
will, purpose, thought. But he realizes but dimly 

75 



76 Mans Life of Purpose 

that the powers which he uses for his work, being 
the powers of life itself, he uses for life. Then 
man who works uses life's powers for the work of 
life on earth. While life works in man it prepares 
for wider work in life freed. Those powers which 
life uses in man it takes to wider life. Then the 
work of man, which is life's work for earth, pre- 
pares life for wider work; the purpose which man 
makes firm life uses beyond earth; the firm will 
which man wins by work life takes to wider work. 
Help men to understand, we pray Thee, O God. 

Work helps life that has the powers free will, 
free purpose. Work that man has is life's work 
for earth. While life works its man's work it uses 
in that work the means with which its Maker pro- 
vides it, free will, free purpose. Work of life man 
has for his work; yet life works wider work when 
freed from man. That work which freed life finds 
is done with the powers which it uses in man's 
work. Man's work teaches life firm will and pur- 
pose; wider life finds its wider work helped by the 
firm will and purpose learned while it was man. 
Then man's work, the work which he thinks is for 
earth only, is purposed to be help for life immortal. 
What food for thought here! Man works the 
work that teaches life itself. 

We who were men, who live the freed life which 
by God's purpose life of man finds finally, would 



Work that Helps Life 77 

help the thought of men. We tell helpful thought 
for men while they work the life's work on earth. 
That which life by God's purpose finds it finds of 
man's free purpose. Then life purposed wider 
life wins the worth for wider life itself. We found 
the worth for freedom by God's purpose through 
wise use of the free purpose He gives to life. Will 
Higher purposes that life while it works man's 
work, while it is man, find the firm purpose which 
helps life wider. Man who purposes for life, think. 
We tell that life finds firm purpose when the man 
finds it. For men the word will be helpful, we 
pray God. 

What purpose must man find by his own will? 
Firm purpose that frees his life from earth. Think, 
man who wills for life to-day. Will that you find 
the firm purpose which wins freedom. Then life 
will thank God. 

Man works the earth work of life immortal. His 
will he uses that the life's work be well finished; 
then that work helps life. When will firm finishes 
the life's work for earth purposed the life finds 
worth for higher life, for by firm purpose life finds 
its worth. That firm purpose work teaches. Then 
man wills that life find the firm purpose which 
makes that life worthy freedom, wider life, fuller, 
better, happier life. Will firm of man find, you 
who would win the wider life. 



78 Mans Life of Purpose 

Will Higher, life's Maker, purposes for that 
life which He made while it wills on earth for wider 
life. Man for whom life wider is purposed wills 
the worth which by God's purpose makes life per- 
sonal worthy wider life. For what purpose then 
must man will? For firm purpose that the man's 
life be worthy. That which life finds through the 
free purpose of man Will Higher purposes that 
life shall find. What for life purposes its Maker? 
Worth for life wider won by the free purpose of 
man. That free purpose finally fulfills the purpose 
of life's Maker. 

The first work of life immortal is man's work. 
That work finally teaches life firm purpose. Man 
the life finally finds the worth which life is pur- 
posed to attain on earth. Then that which Higher 
Purpose wills man fulfills, though his purpose is 
made free. With powers which life will forever 
use man is purposed to work. Those powers Will 
Higher wills must win for life the worth for wider 
life. While life is man then, it has for help the 
powers purposed for help while life is. Man pur- 
poses, while he purposes for his work, well or ill 
as he pleases ; yet life of man finally purposes that 
which Higher Will purposes for it, the worth for 
wider life. Man then fulfills by his use of life's 
immortal power God's purpose. 

Work man has by His purpose who wills for 



Work that Helps Life 79 

him life freed. Will for the work which life is by 
God willed man learns finally. Purpose that life 
win worth life learns finally. Work of life man 
has ; by that work life learns wise use of free pur- 
pose. Man wins higher work for his immortal life 
who works well man's work. 

Work, life's portion while it is man, that work 
which teaches life wise free purpose, man wills well 
finished or ill as he wishes. But that work, to be 
the teaching which He who purposes for life wills, 
must be finished well. When man finishes his work 
well life finds firm purpose. Then man wills that 
life find firm purpose which helps life for wider 
work and in wider life. Heed the word, man who 
works, for life profits through man's thinking. 

Will for work helps life of man. That life who 
firmly works wins firm purpose, which firm pur- 
pose is help while life lasts. What food for thought 
here for men! Man who purposes for life to-day 
firmly wins firm purpose for to-morrow; man who 
purposes firmly for life worthy wins firm purpose 
that life holds to eternity. May the word help 
men, we pray God. 

Wilberforce. 

Work that man finishes well to-day will help for 
to-morxow's work. That life works man's work is 
thought that will help men. That life works in 



80 Mans Life of Purpose 

man for the work to come when life is freed is 
thought helpful. Work helps life. That man 
works the earth work purposed to help life im- 
mortal is thought that helps. Work hard helps 
man to firm purpose; work distasteful helps; the 
work hard or distasteful is yet the life's earth work. 
Heed the word, man who works to-day. Work 
helps life if you choose. 

Work the life is purposed for help. That help 
which man's work brings to life is help while life 
is. That firm purpose for work which life must 
find it finds through the work of man on earth. 
While life lasts it works, for work is purposed help 
for life, and firm purpose for work life finds by 
the will of man who works on earth. 

Will Higher wills for life work, for work helps 
life. Man works the earth work of life immortal. 
That work, purposed to become finally help for 
life immortal, man does of his free will. But man 
who is free nevertheless finally fulfills God's will 
for life. Weak this man may be; weak then is life 
immortal. Purpose who wills for life forever wills 
that finally man's work teach life immortal. What 
thought for help this ! We tell that life immortal 
wills in man; that purpose which life uses forever 
man uses for his work of earth ; that God wills for 
life while it is; that through the work which man 
has life immortal finally learns that which God pur- 



Work that Helps Life 81 

poses that life must learn in man; that finally life 
as the man fulfills the will of its Maker. What for 
the helping thought from this? Will free, will that 
each man knows is wholly free, must fulfill God's 
will. Have the words helped you, O man of earth? 

Work man finds help when by firm purpose he 
finishes it well. Then for life that work is help, 
for life works the man's work. Purpose for work 
finished, then, man who has life to free. That firm 
purpose which life finds by the purpose of Will 
Higher it finds through the teaching of man's 
work. That work which life finds when freed is 
helped by the firm purpose found while life is man. 
We who have found freed life would help men to 
firm purpose. That work which life works while 
it is man wins, if the man chooses, firm purpose 
needed when life is free. Think for that firm pur- 
pose, work for it, man who has life to free. 

That life work for worth God purposes; that life 
learn firm purpose for worth He wills; that life 
work its work for earth given through man He 
wills. His will life fulfills. That life who wills 
finally that it be worthy fulfills thus the purpose of 
life's Maker. Will that thought be help for men? 
We believe it will. For help we tell this word. 
Think, man of earth. You find worth by God's 
purpose ; you find worth using free purpose. That 
worth which life finds freely purposing fulfills 



82 Man's Life of Purpose 

God's will. Help men to understand, we pray 
Thee, O God. 

Will Higher, life's Maker, purposes for life that 
while it is man it prepare for wider life. Will 
Higher purposes for life that by free purpose it 
win the worth for wider life. Purpose firm life 
learns by the work willed for man. Yet man finds 
firm purpose when he wishes. That firm purpose 
man finds himself. When the life finds firm pur- 
pose Will Higher frees it. Think well, you who 
purpose to-day for wider life if you thus choose. 

Why wait, you who purpose to-day for life, for 
firm purpose? Why weakly purpose, when life 
must finally purpose firmly? That worth which 
you find by firm purpose wins freedom. Then 
work for that firm purpose, man of earth. That 
work helps life. 

Man who purposes, free of purpose, wins finally 
that worth which God purposes. Then this man 
who lives to-day may purpose firmly that his life 
win freedom. 

Will Higher made man worker for life immortal. 
Work teaches life firm purpose which life needs 
when freed. Wise the man who wills that his work 
be well done, well finished. That work helps life 
while it wins wider life, for that work done and 
finished well teaches life the firm purpose which 
wins freedom. 



Work that Helps Life 83 

Work for life, man who is free. Work while 
you live this man's life for wider life. Work 
heartily for will that wins freedom. Work heartily 
while this man purposes that life immortal find help. 
While life wills in man, while life purposes in man, 
the purpose which helps life freed will be found. 
You find that purpose if you thus choose. Think, 
who purpose for life to-day. We who tell this 
would help men. Well must life work who wins 
freedom. 

Work of life man has. Through his wise use in 
that work of life's free will man wins worth for 
wider work. Will for work well finished wins firm 
purpose. Well has life worked when God frees 
it, well has life willed. Man who works well life's 
work, who purposes for life worth, wins the wider 
life of personal self willed when life was by Will 
Higher made. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills, wills 
for man that he work life's work for teaching pur- 
posed. Man wills how that work be done. When 
his will firm finishes that work well life wins wider 
life. Work then for wider life, man who wills to- 
day. You will whether life work well. That free 
will which you use to-day wins help for life if you 
thus choose. Think then, who would win this life, 
think well. 



84 Man's Life of Purpose 

Miltiades. 

Will Higher wills that life work. Help life finds 
for worth through the firm purpose learned by- 
work. Man works the work purposed for teaching; 
man finds by that work firm purpose; that firm 
purpose won through man's work life uses for 
worth. Help lives of men to firm purpose, we pray 
Thee, O God. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, purposes that while 
life works the work of earth it find firm purpose. 
Man, who is the life who purposes freely, finally 
finds firm purpose. Yet man will but find weak 
purpose perhaps. Then the weak purpose wins but 
worth for further work and life on earth. Think, 
who weakly purpose. You must find firm purpose. 
Will that you find it this time of life on earth. Then 
free, happy, willing firmly for life worthy, (for 
life freed thus wills helped through the firm pur- 
pose found in man), thank your Maker while life 
lasts. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, wills for the life of 
man worth for the higher life which was from the 
willing of all purposed. That purpose of Will 
Higher life to whom free will was given fulfills. 
What for life purposes Will Higher? Worth found 
by free will. Will life free to will as it pleases 
find that worth? Yes, for thus purposes Will 
Higher. For that worth by which life wins free- 



Work that Helps Life 85 

dom man who wills as he wishes purposes finally. 
Then this man may thus find worth for freedom. 
Think, man who wills for life, think well. 

Will Higher, who purposes for life which He 
made, purposes that purpose of life become firm 
while life is man. Then the life who would find 
freedom purposes firmly by God's purpose, yet 
purposes that which it chooses, since life is free. 
When life in man finds that worth which by God's 
purpose it must, He translates that life to wider 
life; but the life must win firm purpose for worth 
before He translates it. Man who purposes weakly, 
think. 

Well for life purposes the Will Higher. Man, 
who has for life to work, finds firm purpose finally, 
purposed to find it; man who wills for life, finds 
firm free will for life worthy finally, thus purposed 
to will. But while life knows it wills of free will, 
God purposes that free will be well used finally. 
When that free purpose which man is willed wins 
that worth which Will Higher purposes, man who 
knows he is always free has won it. Free purpose 
of life wins finally the purposed worth of life. 
Work teaches purpose. Man who wills for life, 
think. 

Will Higher wills for life work that life find firm 
purpose. Then what work helps life ? That work, 
whatever it be, which man finishes well. Not for 



86 Mans Life of Purpose 

life to weakly work who wishes wider life then, for 
that work which this man finds worth finishing 
well, though it be work for man only, helps firm 
purpose. What food for thought here, man who 
works! Will free man uses to win firm purpose. 
What will have you who work? Firm to finish 
work well ? Then you find firm purpose that helps 
life while it wills for worth. 

Purpose Higher, who made life man, wills for 
that life worth won by itself. What life finds the 
worth which God purposes? The life who firmly 
purposes that man win worth. What for life pur- 
poses He who made it? That life find freedom 
willing for itself its worth He purposes. Remem- 
ber this, man who has life to free. Work firmly 
finished wins that firm purpose which makes life 
worthy freedom. 

That life find while it works man's work firm 
purpose Will Higher purposes; but life free works 
that work which makes firm the purpose. Firm 
purpose must be won while life is man. Man finds 
firm purpose when he wishes. Only that life who 
finds firm purpose wins the wider life. Find that 
firm purpose this man may. Think, who would 
win wider life, think well. 

When man works well, finishing work well, his 
life finds help, for by that will which finishes work 
man wins the worth for wider life. Then, man 



Work that Helps Life 87 

who wishes wider life, firmly will the man's work. 
That life find firm purpose while it is man God 
wills, but He wills that life, while purposing that 
which He wills, must use its free purpose. Then 
life wins wider life by man's free purpose. 

Work for life man finds help when that work 
wins firm purpose. Will for work then helps life. 
Firm purpose found by life through work helps 
to win that worth which Will Higher purposes. 
When man finds firm purpose life finds it. Man 
who works for life, think. 

Will free life is willed by its Maker. By free 
will life wins wider life. What for life wills this 
life who is man to-day? That which he wishes. 
What worth wins freedom? Man's worth. But 
for life man wills using free will. Then worth pur- 
posed must by free will be won, for life is willed 
worth and willed free will. Work for that worth, 
man who wishes freedom; will for life worthy to- 
day. Then find the help which God purposes that 
life's will be. That will which man knows is free 
must make life worthy the freedom purposed by 
God. 

Will for work life learns while it works the man's 
work. That work is life's work for earth. That 
work teaches life that which life needs in wider 
life. Purpose firm life learns while it works on 
earth. Firm purpose that work of man finally 



88 Man's Life of Purpose 

teaches life holds firm while it is. This word will 
help the man who thinks. Man, who uses for his 
work life's power, free purpose, finds by that work 
the firm free purpose which helps life forever. Why 
wait for firm purpose, O man? You may find it 
now. Think well. 



FREE WILL OF LIFE PERSONAL 



FREE WILL OF LIFE PERSONAL 



Dr. Coulter. 

THE life which man has, being life of 
personal self, being also life immortal, 
wins by purpose of man its wider life of 
self. Will free man uses as life which is 
by God purposed wider life ; will free God gives to 
life of man; that will then must fulfill the purpose 
of God for the life which He made personal self. 
When by free will, free purpose, man finds worth, 
his life has found worth, and by man's free will life 
purposed wider life wins that wider life. Then 
personal life while it is man wins of its own free 
will the wider life which God purposes it must win. 
We, the lives freed, were men. We tell that which 
men must think upon. Life for which Will Higher 
purposes fulfills His purpose by its own free will. 

Will for life worthy man finds for life purposed 
worth. Man wills his worth himself, though God 
purposes for his life that it become worthy. Help 
for life is the free will purposed to become; help it 
is when man firmly uses that power for life worthy. 

91 



92 Man's Life of Purpose 

God purposes that life become worthy of its own 
free will. ', 

Will firm, wise free will, helps life of man. Will 
firm, free will well used for life worthy, helps life 
of man. That firm will wins freedom? Only when 
firmly used for life worthy does it win freedom. 
Firm will unworthily used or wickedly used wins 
but weak worth. Man who would win freedom, 
think. How must man will to win the freedom pur- 
posed by God? Well for work, well for life worthy 
man must use free will. For that wise use man 
purposes himself. His free purpose, his free will 
must be well and firmly used for both work and 
for life worthy if he wishes freedom. 

We who know that life is more than man, who 
realize that life wills as personal self that wins wider 
life beyond man's life, purpose this word to help 
men's thought of the life of man. Man who wills 
has within himself the life that gains wider life. 
Man is that life who wins higher life than that of 
earth. Man wills as life who must find higher life. 
We will knowing that we are lives who willed on 
earth; we remember the man's life; we think know- 
ing that we thought on earth; mind that life freed 
uses must be the same mind that man uses, for 
mind thinks remembering former thought, remem- 
bering former wise thought which helped. That 
life who wills, thinks, remembers, purposes in man 



Free Will of Life Personal 93 

wins higher life, takes to the higher life the powers 
it uses in man, wins as life purposed wider life the 
worth for wider life. We think knowing that we 
thought man's thought, will knowing that we willed 
life's worth as men; hence we know that we found 
wider life by free will. But that will man uses 
while life is man. For his worth of life willing man 
wins worth for the life who lives higher life beyond 
earth. Purpose of Higher Will makes life per- 
sonal self. The will which personal self has is free 
will necessarily. The powers of personal self, those 
wide powers whose worth man but partially finds, 
belong to life who finally wins by their wise use 
higher personal life. Man wins for life personal 
the freed life of personal self. Think, who read, 
what this means to you who are life personal. Think 
well, for life will profit thereby. 

Will Higher made man personal life, whose 
power, will, is necessarily free. But Will Higher 
rules that personal life while it is. Then the free 
will of personal life is ruled; that follows of ne- 
cessity, men would say. Then for personal life the 
free will is not wholly free, yet life wills as it pleases 
while it is. The teaching which Higher Will pur- 
poses for life is help to wise use of the will made 
free. Then wise use of free will the Higher Will 
purposes. That life whose will is free learns 
through the teaching it has from Higher Will. 



94 Man's Life of Purpose 

That life finds the wise free will which Higher 
Will purposes it shall find through the teaching 
which Will Higher purposes, and, while life per- 
sonal is wholly free, that life which is free learns to 
use wisely its free power. Man wills for worth or 
unworthiness as he wishes, but finally the life of 
man, that life which is made personal self, learns 
wise use of the power made free. God's purpose 
will finally be fulfilled by the personal life of free 
will. 

Man wills his worth by God's purpose. Self 
finds higher life by the purpose of Him who made 
it life immortal. Worth found by man is purposed 
worth, but that worth man finds of free choice. 
Then man who wills for life worthy fulfills God's 
purpose. What meaning there for men! Will of 
man, the free power of life personal, wins for life 
personal the worth which is for life on earth pur- 
posed by God. Man who would find wider life, 
think. Won by the free will of man himself is that 
freedom for life personal which God purposed from 
the creation of all. 

Man who wills for life immortal has the free 
power of life immortal for his power. Will free 
makes life worthy the higher life purposed by life's 
Maker. Will free makes life of man ready for the 
wider life which from man's willing was purposed 
by his Maker. Then free power of life immortal 



Free Will of Life Personal 95 

makes that life worthy wider life by God's purpose. 
When by free will life of man becomes worthy 
wider life the Master of Life translates that life 
to wider life. When by man's free will life wins 
that wider life, man has won it for the life of per- 
sonal self. Free while it is to will that which it 
wishes, free both while it is man and forever, life 
purposed worth wins its worth by purpose its own. 
Will of man, purpose of man, win for life purposed 
worth the purposed worth. Man who wills to-day, 
think. Your free will, your man's free will, must 
make your life immortal worthy wider, fuller, hap- 
pier life. Think well, O man. 

When man wills that his life be worthy he finds 
worth that life must finally find. But life finds 
that worth by free choice. When that worth which 
God purposes for life on earth is found, that life 
finds fuller life. The purposed worth of life in 
man found by man's free choice frees life from 
man. That thought helps the man who wishes 
higher life. Found by man who wills of free will 
must be the worth which God purposes for life on 
earth. When that free will which is willed to be 
help finally is thus used, man, life of personal self, 
has won wider personal life. Think, man who would 
find wider life. Your own will must make your 
life worthy wider life. 

We who were men, who have won the life freed, 



96 Man's Life of Purpose 

tell this word for help to the thought of men who 
live earth life. The free will of man is the free 
will that life freed uses; that freed life personal 
knows. Then by man's free will life personal wins 
this higher, fuller life. Man who wills, think. That 
free will which you use now will finally win for 
you, the life personal, the worth for freedom. Then 
why not use it well now? Think, and will for life 
freed while this life wills. Then you fulfill this 
time the purpose which life must finally fulfill. 

Will free man has ; will free wins for life of man 
the wider life which the higher will of man's Maker 
purposes that life shall find. That free power man 
has as life for which Higher Will purposes life 
freed. When life free of purpose wins the purposed 
wider life self personal has won it. Man is the 
personal life for which Higher Will purposes. 
When the free will of life is well used by man that 
life finds higher life; when that free will man uses 
for worth God wills for that life higher worth found 
by the same free will which the life uses in man. 
Man wills himself the worth which He who made 
life purposes for life on earth. Then think, man 
who wills for life. The will you have wins wider 
life. Man wills for life immortal, man purposes 
for life immortal. That free power, will of per- 
sonal self, man has. While life is man it wins worth 
for freedom. Then man wins that which permits 



Free Will of Life Personal 97 

freedom by his free will. Heed the word, man of 
life unworthy. 

When man uses free will for life worthy he finds 
firm purpose which helps life freed. For life man 
wills. That purpose which helps life wider man 
finds while he uses well free will. When life finds 
freedom man has won it. Think, then, man who 
wills for life to-day, think well. 

Will free wins man's worth of life. Will free 
wins life's worth to eternity. Will for life worthy 
wins for life wider, fuller life. Will for life worthy 
man finds by free choice. Then when man wills 
that his life be worthy he wills that his life win 
wider life. Think, man of free will. You by your 
own free will win for your life immortal wider 
life. For the man who thinks this word will be 
help. Man himself wins for his life the wider life 
which by God's purpose life immortal finds. Heed 
our word, man of free will. 

The. power of life, free will, man uses for the 
work of life on earth. Work helps life when well 
done and well finished. Man wills whether life's 
work be finished well, and his will wins for life the 
firm purpose which life takes to wider life. When 
the will for work man makes firm, he wins for life 
firm will; when he wins firm purpose life wins it. 
Man who uses for life's work life's power, free 
will, uses it well or ill as he pleases. What for 



98 Man's Life of Purpose 

help would that power be if weakly used? Think, 
who would help life. Win firm purpose you may 
this time of life on earth. Firm purpose wins for 
life wider, fuller life. Man who works, think. 

Wilberforce. 

Will for life worthy is free will taught. Will 
free of man is life's power. When life is taught by 
life of man God wills it freedom from man. But 
that freedom willed must be won by life's personal 
free will. Man uses life's free will for the worth 
by which life personal wins willed freedom. When 
man wills that life win freedom life personal thus 
wills, for life personal is man on earth. When man 
works well the work which by God's purpose 
teaches life, his life finds the firm free purpose by 
which life of self wins freedom. Man, life of self, 
wills as he chooses, but life of self which finds by 
God's purpose wider life wins the worth for wider 
life itself. 

That worth which frees life from man man him- 
self finds. By his wise choice life finds that worth. 
God purposes for life that by man's free choice self 
must find its worth for this wider life. Will for 
life worthy is free will wisely and worthily used. 
When life finds that wise free will it fulfills God's 
purpose. 

That worth which man wins by wise use of free 



Free Will of Life Personal 99 

will the life takes to wider life. What life finds 
the wider life? That life who wins worth of free 
will. Personal self man is, whose will must be 
wholly free. Personal life wins wider personal life. 
While life of personal self wills as man it wins that 
worth which frees from man. That worth is not 
won of bound will, but of free will. Man wills for 
man's worth; the worth found by life in man helps 
life to win wider worth. While life is the worth 
won by man's free will is help. Think, who w T ill 
for life to-day. Why will weakly, why will un- 
worthily? Have we helped the man who reads? 
God grant it. 

That worth which finite life finds, worth pur- 
posed, wins for that life wider life than that of 
man. Worth of life finite, purposed worth, will 
then, (for thus Will Higher wills), be found by 
the powers of life finite. That life finite is made 
personal self; the powers of that life personal are 
free; then Will Higher purposes that finite life 
fulfill His purpose by its free will. Higher will of 
life's Maker wills for that life which He made per- 
sonal self. While life free of purpose wills the 
Higher Will purposes for it. Then what for that 
life who wills weakly or wickedly purposes He? 
Punishment? Why that thought? No, not pum 
ishment; will for life worthy finally won. Penalty, 
yes; He purposes that when life fulfills not His 



100 Maris Life of Purpose 

will; penalty through which life learns wise use 
of free will. What for life who wills worthily pur- 
poses He? Freedom, wider life, happy life. Then 
wise free will seek, man of life personal. While 
life lasts the will that man uses life uses. Then man 
who makes life worthy himself finds that wise free 
will by which life finds its worth forever. 

Would this mean that life of free purpose wills 
worth forced? Would life free be forced to will 
for worth? No, life free wills that which it wishes. 
Then that free will which God makes the power of 
life personal wins the worth for the wider life pur- 
posed for immortal life from the willing of all. 

When life freely willing finds worth that purpose 
for which life was made personal life is fulfilled. 
Man wills his worth of life himself, thus winning 
for life personal the worth for life wider. That 
life is purposed for personal self by Will Higher, 
but He who made life free purposes that the free 
power of life fulfill His purpose. When life freely 
willing finds the worth which He purposes for life 
on earth Will Higher frees that life from man. 
His purpose life finally fulfills. Man the life finds 
will that frees from weakness, but that will man's 
Maker purposes that life in man shall find. Then 
will free fulfills the purpose of Him who made it 
free. Willing for itself its worth, life fulfills the 
purpose of its Maker. 



Free Will of Life Personal 101 

Will of man, life's free power, makes that life 
worthy higher life. The free power of personal 
life man uses. When life wins freedom it is per- 
sonal life who wins it. For what must man will 
who wishes wider life? For both work finished and 
life worthy. Man wills for his work and for his 
life worthy of free will. Then free will of man 
fulfills the purpose of man's Maker when man uses 
it well. Work teaches free will. Firm for work 
finished, firm for life worthy must man be who 
would find the worth which wins freedom. I who 
tell this know that I tell truth. Heed my word, 
you who would find freedom. 

Will Higher, who wills for life while it is, pur- 
poses while life is man that by free will life win 
the worth for wider life. His purpose all life ful- 
fills. When by free will man makes his life worthy, 
God's purpose that man fulfills. When for life 
worthy the life of man purposes, that life wins 
fuller life. Well must the man will who would find 
freedom, well must he purpose. Free will well used 
wins freedom; free will unworthily used holds life 
to earth. Why then weakly or unworthily use your 
will, man who would find wider life? Only firm 
will used for worth wins wider life. Think, man of 
earth, think wisely. 

Will free man has. By free will he wins his 
worth of life. That will life freed holds firm if man 



102 Man's Life of Purpose 

has made it firm. Free will wins life's further 
worth. That thought will help man who wills for 
life. Purposed life wider, willed free will, self of 
man wills by free will the worth for wider life. 
Then life who wins wider life wins it by the free 
will it uses in man. What worth frees life from 
earth? The worth that man finds of his free will. 
Purpose Higher wills for life worth wider than it 
finds in man; that further worth life wins by free 
will. Not forced, but choosing worth, life wills for 
its worth forever. 

That free power, will, which man uses life freed 
uses for its wider life. Then man uses for his 
worth life's free will. Man was willed that free 
power of life personal. Wide that power becomes 
when life is freed. That power, will, helps life for 
worth forever. Purpose won by life in man helps 
life forever. Then, man who would help life im- 
mortal, will and purpose firmly that man's life find 
worth. 

Free will helps man when it is well and worthily 
used. Free will belongs to life immortal. That 
life who wins this wider life wins it freely willing 
for its own worth. What food for thought here! 
Man himself wins by his free choice the worth 
which makes life personal ready for wider life. 
Will for life worthy then, man who would free life 
immortal, will for life worthy by firm free will. 



Free Will of Life Personal 103 

Will of life personal, being free, man who works 
for life wider uses as he wishes. But life that wills 
of free will has God's purpose to fulfill. Man 
whose purpose weak makes life unworthy wills for 
life but man's work again. For life worthy man 
wills if he thus wishes; for life unworthy he wills if 
he thus wishes. But life unworthy remains worker 
on earth. Would the man whose work is hard wish 
that work again? His will wins better life if he 
thus chooses. Then what life finds, whether wider 
life or man's life of work again, depends on the 
man's wish. God help men to understand, we pray. 

Miltiades. 

Man, who wills using life's free will, is life for 
which God purposes. Then man, though free, ful- 
fills God's purpose, must, for life of man is ruled 
by God's purpose. Why then may man will for 
un worthiness ? Will free man has. Willed the 
worth for wider life, man who uses free will finds 
that worth by wise use of free will. Man, life per- 
sonal, wills worth or unworthiness as he chooses, 
but purpose higher must by that life be fulfilled. 
Then wider life will finally be won, though now 
the life wills unworthiness. Will free of man, used 
for worth by life's free choice, wins the worth which 
God purposes for life on earth. That worth, 
though by God purposed, will finally be won by 



104 Man's Life of Purpose 

man's free will. 

Will Higher, who is Will Omnipotent, wills for 
life of man higher, worthier life than that of earth. 
Man wins the worth for wider life by his free will. 
Man then finds the wider life by his own purpose, 
though that worth which wins wider life is by Will 
Higher purposed. Worth the life in man finds 
finally. Life who finds that worth finds wider per- 
sonal life. Made life personal, willed free will, man 
finds his worth of personal will. Though Will 
Higher purposes worth, that worth is purposed to 
be by free will won. Will free is the will for life 
personal willed by Higher Will; then by free will 
life personal fulfills the higher will. Man wins by 
will free the wider life purposed by Higher Will 
for personal self. That which God purposes the 
life that He made free fulfills of its free will. Man 
wins the higher life which life personal must find by 
use of his own free will. 

Will Higher made man life personal whose will 
He made free. Personal life wins personal worth. 
Personal worth life personal takes to higher life. 
Worth found by life in man helps that life to find 
the wider worth which God purposes for life im- 
mortal. That will by which man finds his worth 
is the free will of life personal. Man who wills for 
worth or unworthiness as he wishes finds the worth 
finally which God purposes that life shall find on 



Free Will of Life Personal 105 

earth. The free power of life personal wins for 
man, who is life personal on earth, the worth which 
God purposes for life while it isjnan. 

Will of life personal is free, but that will fulfills 
God's will, for finally that will, though wholly free, 
makes life in man worthy the higher life of freedom. 
What help in this thought ! Man himself frees the 
life, for man himself wills the worth for the wider 
life. Will free of life personal man uses while he 
wins for that life the worth for the higher life which 
Will Higher purposes. Man who wills weakly, 
think. 

Will of life personal, the free will that personal 
life uses in man, frees life from earth. Free to will 
worth or weakness, free to purpose well or ill, man 
finds the purposed worth not forced to will other- 
wise than as he wishes. His life finds the purposed 
worth for wider life by his man's choice. Then 
what must the man be who wins wider life? Wor- 
thy to be free, worthy through his own wise free 
will. That man who wills this worth finds his life 
freed when man's body dies. Then, man who has 
free will, what help will this man's life be to you? 
Choose as you wish; man's wise choice wins wider 
life. 

For life personal the Higher Will purposes. 
What does Higher Will purpose for life free in 
will? Worth found by free will, found by the life's 



106 Mans Life of Purpose 

own free choice. Then life personal, to fulfill 
God's purpose, wills worth choosing worth. That 
free power, will, life uses wisely finally. God's 
purpose free life fulfills by its own free choice 
finally, and by will free man, who is life personal 
on earth, wins the worth by which life personal is 
made ready for wider, fuller life. 

When the free will of man, the free will of life 
personal on earth, wins for that life freedom, per- 
sonal life has found wider life. Free from man, life 
wills for yet wider life. Will free life uses still. 
For life will is free forever. When freed life wills, 
using for help the will made firm by man, it wills 
for worth that brings yet wider life. Then life 
freed finds help from man's work, for through the 
teaching of the work of earth life is taught firm 
free will. Help men to understand, we pray, O 
God. 

Man has that power which, by the purpose of 
life's Wilier, wins the worth of life forever. Man 
has that power while he works life's work for earth 
purposed. That power wins for life the wider 
life which life's Maker purposes. By that power, 
life's free will, man wins the worth for freedom. 
Then man himself makes his life worthy wider, 
fuller life. We tell for help this word. Heed 
it, who would find freedom. 

That life find worth for wider life Will Higher 



Free Will of Life Personal 107 

purposes; that life find that worth of free will He 
purposes. Would that mean that free will is 
forced? Would man will for worth of forced will? 
Would worth of life be forced by Him who made 
life free? That free power made man's power life 
uses for its worth forever. Man finds for life the 
worth purposed for earth by free will. His worth 
wins freedom for life immortal from earth. Then 
will free of man, life's free power, will finally make 
life immortal worthy the wider life which God pur- 
poses. When life free of will wins freedom, man 
has won it. Think, who would live wider life; the 
free will you now use must win it. Think well. 

That life find free will its help God purposes; 
that life win wider life God purposes; then free 
will must win the purposed worth for wider life. 
Man uses the free will of immortal life. His wise 
use frees life from man. His wise use prepares 
life immortal for the life freed from man's infir- 
mity, freed from man's will weak, freed from life 
inferior, freed, and thankful for its freedom. 
Think, man of earth. Your free will, if you will 
thus use it, frees your life from man. Will for life 
worthy then this time of life on earth; will for free- 
dom then, man of earth. 

When life finds wider life man has won it. His 
free purpose makes his life worthy. His will free 
wins wider life. Man frees himself then, for the 



108 Mans Life of Purpose 

worth by which life is made worthy wider life man 
chooses. But when has life found worth for the 
freedom and wider life which God purposes? 
When man the personal life has won that worth. 
Help men to understand, we pray Thee, O God. 

Work well finished teaches free will; work weak 
leaves will weak. Man works life's work. His will, 
being life's power, he uses for that work. His wise 
use frees lif e, his weak use keeps life working man's 
work. Then man wills for life its freedom by his 
free choice, for by his free will he makes life worthy 
freedom. Think, man who has life to free, think 
well. 

Man wills by free will that life find worth for 
wider life. Then wider life man himself wins. But 
that worth must be won by man, for only that life 
who by free will finds the worth which man is by 
Will Higher purposed wins the life wider. What 
man wins then he himself wills. What worth would 
the life win who weakly wills? That worth which 
holds life to earth. When man who wills by free 
will finds that worth which God purposes he has 
won for life personal wider life. Think then, who 
would be free. Will firmly for life worthy. Your 
will wins that worth which wins freedom. Think 
well, O man. 

Will for life worthy man finds helped by his 
Maker. Will for life worthy life finds in man, and 



Free Will of Life Personal 109 

that will helps life for the life wider. Man who 
wins that will wins for his life freedom. That will 
won by life in man life holds for the wider life firm. 
That helping thought keep before you, man who 
lives the earth life. That will found, life wins free- 
dom. Man finds that will helped by firm purpose. 
Helped by prayer honest man finds firm purpose. 
When that purpose is found Will Higher frees life 
from man forever. Think, who have will and pur- 
pose free. Win firm purpose this time ; then thank 
your Maker while life lasts. 

Man who wills of free will fulfills the purpose of 
Higher Will by the free power which Higher Will 
makes life's power. Will free then wins for life 
the wider life purposed by Will Higher. What 
meaning there for men! He who himself wills for 
worth wins wider life for his immortal self. Think, 
who would win wider life. Your will wins your 
worth. You win wider life, for that life you have 
is personal life purposed life wider, but purposed 
by free will to win it. Work purposed teaches 
wise free will. Help men to understand, we pray 
Thee, O God. 

That free power of life personal, man's free will, 
is life's power forever. What thought for help 
there! We who know tell this — Higher Will pur- 
poses for the life free in will; His purpose life 
fulfills of free will; His purpose follows life while 



110 Mans Life of Purpose 

it is; life wills well finally. Thank Will Higher 
we do for His purpose for life. We found this 
happy life by His purpose. We pray Thee, O 
God, bless this word to help of many. 



VI 

MAN, THE LIFE OF FREE PURPOSE 



MAN, THE LIFE OF FREE PURPOSE 

Dr. Coulter. 

THE work of life immortal man has for 
his work, the work purposed to teach life 
immortal for wider, fuller, better work 
and life. Man works unknowing that his 
work is for more than man. It is for life immortal 
that man works. His purpose used in that work 
is the purpose of life immortal. The firm purpose 
won through work well finished helps life immortal 
forever. Man wins the purpose which life uses 
for wider work and in higher life. Then man who 
finishes well his work helps life immortal to win 
firm purpose, but when man works weakly life wins 
not firm purpose. Think, man who works. Will 
you work that life immortal win wider work, or 
that it remain working man's work? You choose 
for life. Think well. 

Will Higher made man life personal whose pur- 
pose is wholly free. Man wins wider life for per- 
sonal self then, for man is personal self. What 
worth does life find in man? Personal worth, 

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114 Mans Life of Purpose 

which worth must be won of personal free pur- 
pose. When by personal purpose life wins the 
worth which God wills that life on earth shall 
find, He frees that life from man. Will Higher 
purposes that life find worth, and that it find it 
by free purpose its own. Life made fulfills God's 
purpose by the purpose He makes life's free power, 
the purpose of personal self. Will free of personal 
life wins the worth that is by Higher Purpose willed 
for the life of man. That power of life personal 
then fulfills the higher purpose for that life. Then 
purpose which man has accords with the purpose 
of his Maker finally. When life finally wills that 
which Purpose Higher wills it must, He frees that 
life from man. While life lasts Purpose Higher 
wills for it. Life free in purpose fulfills His will. 

That purpose which wins freedom for life is 
the purpose of man. When man purposes life 
purposes, and when life purposes with firm pur- 
pose to win worth life wins freedom. Man is the 
life who purposes. When man purposes firmly for 
worth then, the life wins freedom. Work God 
wills for life on earth that by its teaching life find 
the firm purpose by which it finds worth for free- 
dom. Help men to think wisely, O God. 

Man, who has his free purpose by his Maker's 
will, has the life of personal self. But life which 
is man has God's purpose to fulfill. Willed free 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 115 

purpose, willed worth, man finds the willed worth 
by wise use of his own purpose. But his purpose 
may be weak or firm, since he purposes as he 
chooses. Then the free purpose made man's power 
fulfills or not, as the man pleases, God's higher pur- 
pose. The life who fulfills God's purpose He re- 
wards by giving it freedom, but the life who fulfills 
not His purpose He wills to be man again. What 
food for thought, O man who uses free purpose! 
Think what you will make your purpose. 

That work which man has will finally teach his 
life firm will, for thus God purposes; but life free 
of purpose wills to-day as it chooses. While life 
wills the higher will of God purposes for it. That 
purpose life must fulfill, but God wills that His 
purpose be fulfilled by life of free purpose. When 
that life made free purposes for the worth which 
Higher Will purposes that life shall find, when 
that life free of purpose chooses worth, God wills 
for it freedom, higher life, worthier life. When 
that life free of purpose forgets worth, when that 
free life wills wickedly, God wills for it penalty. 
What penalty? Penalty which keeps life working 
still as man, willing still for man's little life, pur- 
posing still for the world welfare. Then, man 
who wills, think. Your free will, your free purpose 
will, if you thus choose, make life immortal worthy 
wider life. Will you choose this, or further life 



116 Mans Life of Purpose 

of man? God makes you free. What then will you 
choose? Think, man of free purpose, think. 

When man purposes firmly that his worth he 
find, life itself thus purposes; when man pur- 
poses unworthily life itself thus purposes. Man 
who uses life's purpose, what purpose will you find 
this time of life on earth; what purpose, worthy or 
unworthy? Choose for yourself, for you are the 
life who purposes. 

The man who wills firmly that the work which 
he has be well finished wins firm purpose. When 
life wins this life it has found firm purpose. That 
firm purpose which it found in man remains firm 
while life works its wider work. Then that which 
man finds help for his life freed life finds help for 
that life. While life is, firm purpose is help. Man 
wins firm purpose when he wishes. His work 
teaches that firm purpose when the man wishes. 
Then man himself wills that life find the firm pur- 
pose which helps life forever. 

We who were men, who have won the life of 
freedom, would help men to understand what man 
must be to win this life. We were workers while 
we were men. The firm purpose which life needs 
when freed we won in man's life. The firm will 
that wavers not for worth we won as men. This 
life holds firm purpose, O men. What meaning 
for man's life this gives ! Man, who is life for which 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 117 

wider life is by God purposed, finds, while he 
works the man's work, the firm purpose which his 
life will use when freed. Not man who finds weak 
purpose, but man who finds firm purpose wins free- 
dom for his life. Think, man of earth. 

That life who works for worth firmly, who wills 
for life worthy with unwavering purpose, has found 
that which life in man was purposed from the mak- 
ing of life to find. That firm purpose life wins 
through work; that firm purpose life wins while it 
is man. Then that firm purpose man himself finds, 
thus fulfilling the purpose for which fife was made 
man by the Wilier of Life. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, Wilier for life of 
free purpose, made life which purposes while it 
is for wider and wider life. Will Higher, whose 
purpose life which He made fulfills, wills while 
life is for that life. While life purposes He pur- 
poses for it; while life wins that freedom purposed 
when life was made He purposes for it. His pur- 
pose, the purpose of Higher Life, finite life fulfills. 
What worth wills He that life find in man? The 
worth of man. Then by free purpose that He made 
power of life the life while it is man fulfills His 
purpose. What finds life that purposes well? 
Freedom, will firm, freedom from weak purpose, 
wider worth. Found by the purpose which Will 
Higher makes free is the worth of life forever. 



118 Mans Life of Purpose 

Will Higher was when other life made by him 
was not. His will, the will of Life Infinite, willed 
life finite into being. Will that made life follows 
life while He permits it to be. His purpose that 
life fulfills. His will gives to the life which He 
made the free powers of life personal. Then that 
life fulfills His purpose by wise use of free pur- 
pose. Man, the life made finite, fulfills by finite 
will the purpose of his Maker. When that finite 
life purposes for that which by God's purpose it 
must, the worth that makes life worthy freedom, its 
purpose free fulfills the higher purpose. Man who 
wills freely, man who purposes for life worthy 
or not as he chooses, finally purposes for worth. 
His free purpose he finally uses well, for that which 
God wills life finite fulfills. How then may life 
which must finally purpose worth purpose, when it 
wishes, unworthiness ? Man is made free; that an- 
swers. Then while life of man purposes for the 
life of earth it fulfills the purpose of God. When 
does that life fulfill the Higher Purpose? When 
by free choice it purposes worth. For life which 
He wills wider life He wills free purpose its own. 
That free purpose which finally fulfills the higher 
purpose of Him who made it free, man has as life 
that finds finally wider, fuller life. What food 
for thought here, man of earth! Think what it 
means to the life you have. Think wisely, for 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 119 

life profits by wise thought. 

Will Higher, who made life in His image, wills 
for that life powers like, though finite, the powers 
of Life Infinite. That power purpose which He 
made life's power wins for life the worth that He 
purposes for life; that power purpose, made firm 
finally by life of man, wins that worth through 
which life is made ready for wider life. Man, who 
purposes for man's life, finally purposes that which 
Will Higher wills that life of man shall. Finite 
purpose fulfills omnipotent purpose ; finite will ful- 
fills omnipotent will. God made life personal self, 
willed for it the free powers of personal self, willed 
that by the powers of personal self life shall ful- 
fill His purpose. Man is the life whose powers, 
finite though they be, fulfill the will of man's 
Maker. By will his own man makes his life worthy ; 
by purpose his own man wins wider life of self. 
Man, the life finite, by finite power made his by 
Will Higher fulfills the purpose of that Higher 
Will. 

Will Higher, man's JVIaker, purposes for man 
that by free will he make his life worthy. Man 
who wills his life worthy wins for life of self the 
wider life which God purposes. Free for life is 
the power will, but that free power life finally uses 
for the worth which fulfills God's purpose. Man 
then by free will fulfills the purpose that makes 



120 Mans Life of Purpose 

personal life worthy freedom. What food for 
thought here for men! Wise life becomes through 
God's teaching. Man who is life wins through 
firm purpose the wider life of self. For life wider 
he purposes who purposes that man's life be 
worthy; for life wider he wills who wills life worthy 
of man. When life free of purpose by that free 
purpose wins this fuller life man has won it. Until 
will free makes life worthy God keeps life on earth. 
Would you the life prefer man's life or wider life? 
Think, man who purposes for life, think well. 

That firm purpose which frees life will be found 
by life while it is man; thus Will Higher purposes. 
Yet His will makes life free. Purpose of free per- 
sonal life then fulfills God's purpose. When life 
who wills that which it wishes finds firm purpose 
to will that which God purposes, He wills for that 
life freedom, wider life, happy life. When life 
wills that which He who made life purposes not, 
His will holds that life to earth. Then man who 
purposes for worth wins freedom, but man who 
purposes for un worthiness keeps life there where 
it is man. What food for thought for men here! 
That purpose which frees life man finds when by 
will firm he makes life worthy. But that purpose 
man finds by God's will. Then man fulfills the 
will of life's Maker by wise use of his free pur- 
pose. Man wills for life wider who wills that man's 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 121 

life be worthy; man wills for life on earth again 
who wills for un worthiness. Think, man who uses 
purpose weakly, think well. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, wills that man be life 
immortal. His will follows that life while it is. 
Man wills because Will Higher made him the wilier 
of finite life; man purposes because he is made to 
purpose. For that life which He made with free 
will and purpose He wills that it fulfill by free 
will and purpose His purpose. What wills He 
for life of man? That it work the purposed work 
that teaches for wider life. What must that work 
teach life? Firm purpose. Then for life that works 
firm purpose is by Will Higher purposed. When 
life fulfills the higher purpose of its Maker by wise 
use of the free will and purpose willed for it by 
Higher Will, that life fulfills the purpose for which 
the work of man is willed. What further for life 
wills the Maker of Life? That by firm free will 
and purpose it find the worth for wider life. Finally 
life of man finds firm purpose, and by that firm 
purpose fulfills the higher purpose of God. Man 
finds that firm purpose when he wishes. Then 
when man wishes life fulfills God's purpose. 

Man, willed life for which life wider is by Will 
Higher purposed, finally fulfills that higher pur- 
pose. Willed life finite fulfills the purpose of Life 
Infinite. Man, who has for help the powers pur- 



122 Mans Life of Purpose 

posed to help life forever, wins through his wise 
use of the powers made his the worth purposed for 
life on earth. Will free man has; by that free 
will he makes his life worthy. Purpose for life 
worthy life finally finds while it is man. Purpose 
higher of life's Maker is fulfilled by the power 
willed to man as life of personal self. Willed wider 
life, willed worth won by itself, life purposed 
wider life wins the worth for the purposed wider 
life using the power made by Higher Purpose the 
power of personal life. Man the willed life, free 
to purpose as he wishes, finally purposes that which 
wins wider life. Fulfilled by the purpose willed 
to life is the higher purpose of life's Wilier. 

Will Higher, life's Maker, wills that life while 
it is on earth be man. He wills for that life free 
purpose which that life uses while it fulfills His 
purpose. For what then must life purpose while 
it is man? For the worth which frees from man. 
What for life free in purpose wills He who made 
life? That by free purpose its own the life ful- 
fill His purpose. When, freely purposing, man 
finds that worth which life by the purpose of its 
Maker must find on earth, man fulfills the pur- 
pose of Him who made life free. That worth you 
who purpose for life to-day find when you thus 
wish. Think then, man who has life to free, think 
well. 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 123 

When man purposes well life purposes well. 
Man fulfills the purpose for him of life's Wilier 
when by firm purpose he makes life worthy wider 
life. When the purpose of man, firmly and wisely 
used, makes man worthy, the wider life has been 
won for personal self. Think, who use to-day life's 
free purpose. We help if you think well. 

Will Higher made life personal. That Will 
who made life follows to eternity the life. That 
purpose who made life personal wills for life per- 
sonal to eternity. Man the life of self purposes 
finally that which the Higher Will of God pur- 
poses for him. While life purposes on earth it is 
man; while life purposes as man it prepares for 
wider life. Fulfilling thus the purpose of its Maker, 
life finds wider worth using the purpose which it 
uses in man. The higher purpose for life is ful- 
filled by the purpose of life itself. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, was when life made 
by Him was not. He wills for the life whom He 
made while that life is. When His purpose that 
life fulfills, freely willing, His love takes that life 
to wider, happier, worthier life. Man who lives 
earth life wins by free will the wider life purposed 
by his Maker. When by free will life finds free- 
dom, man has won it. Then firmly purpose for life 
worthy, man who wishes freedom; for life worthy 
purpose this time of life on earth. Will free man 



124 Mans Life of Purpose 

has, and by will free he wins his worth. Will free 
wins freedom for life. Will free must win the 
worth for freedom. Now that will may be used 
well. For the wider life purpose firmly then, man 
who has life to free. Will free well and worthily 
used will win it. Remember, O man, that you win 
freedom for life this time if you thus firmly pur- 
pose. 

Will Higher, who purposes for life while it is, 
made life man for earth, willed for life man's work 
that by it life find firm purpose, willed for life 
personal personal powers that the life uses while it 
is, made life man, takes the life from earth when 
by firm purpose of man life wins the worth that 
He purposes for life on earth, frees that life from 
weak purpose, frees that life from man's physical 
infirmity, makes for life personal purpose its free 
power, and wills that by free purpose its own life 
fulfill His purpose. Then life willed wider life 
wins the wider life using free purpose its own. 
That purpose which God makes free fulfills His 
purpose, but the firm wise use of free purpose is 
man's own choice. Think well, man who would 
free life, think well. 

Wilberforce. 

Will Higher made life man, willed for that life 
the purpose free of life personal. His purpose 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 125 

follows that life while it is. Man, though his pur- 
pose is free, fulfills God's purpose. For that 
which He purposes that life must find He per- 
mits that life to purpose itself. Then life free 
in purpose may use that power well or ill, but the 
life which is made free must finally win, by its own 
purpose, worth. The higher purpose for life per- 
sonal that life fulfills by its own free purpose. We, 
the lives freed, worked life's work of earth, finished 
that work, found for life immortal firm purpose 
that helps life forever. Why weakly purpose, man 
who has life to free? Why weakly use life of 
man? Will free you have, purpose free. You win 
this life willing firmly, purposing that man's life 
be worthy. Think, then, think wisely. 

That free purpose which man has, the free pur- 
pose of life itself, makes life worthy finally. When 
that free purpose man uses well life wins wider 
life; when that purpose man uses unworthily life 
finds man's life of earth again. Then man pur- 
poses that life win the worth for this life when he 
purposes life worthy of man. 

Will Higher frees life, but man's purpose makes 
life worthy freedom. Will Higher frees life, but 
only when firm purpose life has found. Will 
Higher frees life, but when? That life itself wills, 
for life by free purpose finds the worth for free- 
dom. Words helpful for the man who uses the free 



126 Maris Life of Purpose 

purpose of life. 

Man who purposes for life on earth finds finally 
the firm free purpose which wins wider life. That 
firm purpose life takes to higher life. Firm pur- 
pose won by life in man helps life when freed. Man 
who purposes for life immortal, think. 

What purpose finds life in man? Firm purpose. 
Man wishes that firm purpose then, for he is life 
free. What by firm purpose has life to find while 
it is man? The worth which permits wider life. 
Then while this man purposes life may find the 
firm purpose which wins freedom. Why wait to 
find that firm purpose, man who has life to free? 
To-day that firm purpose may be found. Think 
well, O man. 

That worth which life finds by the purpose which 
He who made life makes free is won by life while 
it wills for man. Work teaches firm purpose; 
worth of life is found by firm purpose. Weak life 
for which worth is purposed waits for that worth. 
Yet the higher purpose for life is finally fulfilled. 
Man, the life immortal who freely purposes, wins 
finally the worth that God purposes. When that 
worth man finds, life personal has won wider life. 
Think, who would find the wider life. Will free, 
purpose free must win it. Think well. 

The work which life must finish on earth man 
must finish. That work man does using the will 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 127 

of life. The purpose of life itself man uses, but 
man misuses that purpose perhaps. Then life has 
failed? No, life fails not, for God purposes for 
every life freedom, and higher, worthier life in 
freedom. But when weak purpose only man finds, 
life wins not the wider life. Man himself finds the 
firm purpose which wins wider life. His own pur- 
pose he uses, for he is the life which finds higher, 
worthier life. But the weak purpose frees not the 
life, for by God's purpose life wins freedom when 
for life worthy it purposes firmly. Why then does 
He who purposes for life permit weak use of pur- 
pose? That life win worth of free purpose God 
wills. His will life finally fulfills. But when life 
weakly purposes unworthiness, weakly purposes 
that which helps not the life, that life remains will- 
ing on earth. For purpose wise God purposes, and 
the wise purpose man finds through the teaching 
of work. Think, who would find worthy life. Firm 
purpose wins the worth which frees. You win firm 
purpose when you please. Think well, O man. 

Will Higher, who wills for life worth found by 
free purpose, follows that life while it purposes. 
What purposes He for life? That it find firm pur- 
pose while it is man. What for life who finds that 
firm free purpose wills He? Wider life, fuller 
life, further worth. Would weak purpose win that 
reward? No, only firm purpose wins wider life. 



128 Mans Life of Purpose 

Firm purpose won, life holds it firm through the 

life wider, holds it firm through life forever. What 

happy thought for men! 

But what purpose has this life found? What 

help has this man from his free purpose? Think 

what this tells : man finds the firm purpose by which 
God wills that life must find its worth forever. 

What has this man found, weak or firm purpose? 

Man who purposes for life to-day, think well. 

That purpose by which life wins freedom is man's 
purpose used for worth of life. Worth of life man 
finds through firm purpose. Man purposes well 
who purposes daily for worth of life. When weak, 
life finds help through prayer. Prayer with work 
to be and do as one prays to be and do is honest 
prayer. Then life finds freedom through man's 
purpose aided by man's Maker. 

The life who wills for worth is life for whom 
worth is by God purposed. That purpose which 
He gives who made life fulfills His purpose for life. 
Will free made life's personal power frees life per- 
sonal from earth. The will made life's free power 
wins the worth which by God's purpose life must 
find. His purpose who gives free purpose will 
be by that free purpose fulfilled. O God, help 
men to firm purpose to find this higher, happier 
life. Think, man of weak purpose. That free- 
dom which life finds must be by its own firm pur- 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 129 

pose won. Think well. 

The man who works well, purposing firmly for 
work well finished, helps to firm purpose the life 
for which wider work is willed. The man who 
weakly works helps not his life. But life finds firm 
purpose finally by God's purpose. Work purposed 
for teaching life has for earth work, and that work 
finally teaches life the firm purpose by which life 
wins wider life. Yet man purposes that work of 
life be well or ill finished as he wishes. For the 
life who wins through work of man firm purpose 
God purposes freedom. Won then by man who 
purposes firmly is the freedom purposed for life 
from life's creation. 

Man wills for life worthy when he wishes, but 
life finds worth by God's purpose. Then this man 
may find worth for wider life when he wishes. For 
worth purpose firmly then, man who would find 
wider life. You will for that worth of free will; 
you purpose that life find freedom when thus you 
wish. Heed the word, man of free purpose; heed 
the word from the wider life. 

Purpose for life worthy life finds while it pur- 
poses in man; thus wills life's Maker, God. When 
by free purpose life finds the worth that it must 
find on earth Will Higher frees that life from 
earth. Then for itself life finds that worth which 
God purposes. Then man who finds worth fill- 



130 Man's Life of Purpose 

fills the higher purpose of life's Maker, the Will 
Omnipotent, God. Man who freely purposes must 
by that free purpose become worthy higher life of 
self. Wise the life becomes finally. Wise life finds 
the purpose for life worthy which the higher pur- 
pose of God wills that it must. We tell this for 
help. Think, man of free purpose. Your purpose, 
when wisely used for life worthy, wins for life per- 
sonal the worth for freedom. When life free pur- 
poses that which frees from earth God translates 
that life to fuller life. Wise life becomes by God's 
purpose while it wills in man. While life lasts pur- 
pose firm found by life on earth is help. Think 
well, O men, for you profit then by our words. 

Will Higher makes life free in purpose. Man 
who wills for the earth life of personal self, wills, 
while life works man's work, how that work is done. 
His purpose he uses well or weakly. The man then 
uses his purpose for life who must finally work well, 
but his purpose is by Higher Will made free. Then 
this man who purposes finds, if he thus chooses, the 
firm purpose which God wills that life find on earth. 
What has life for help when freed? The firm pur- 
pose won through life and work of man. Will 
Higher purposes for life while it is man that man 
find that firm purpose which helps life forever. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills, is Life 
Infinite. His will, the will of Omnipotence, that 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 131 

which He made must fulfill, but life free of pur- 
pose by the free purpose given by Him who made 
it wins the worth that He purposes. When life 
finds that worth life itself chooses; but purpose of 
Life Infinite is finally fulfilled by life finite. Man 
free to will worth or unworthiness, life free to 
purpose for wider life if it wishes thus to purpose, 
finally uses the free powers of life finite for the 
worth which Life Infinite purposes. Will free of 
life, purpose free of life finally fulfill the purpose 
for life of its infinite Maker. 

Miltiades. 

Will that man has, the free will which is the 
power of life personal, wins for life personal this 
wider life. When free will is well used life wins 
wider life ; when free purpose man uses firmly life 
wins the wider life. Well then must man purpose, 
well must he will, for by his purpose and his will 
life wins the wider, fuller life. Man who wishes 
the wider life, think. 

The will free of life personal man has. That 
will, pushed by firm purpose which is free also, 
wins life's worth. Man finds for life purposed 
worth the firm purpose that brings worth. His 
life, willed to be finite, works the purposed work 
of life on earth. That work man finishes well 
through firm purpose. Must life finish man's work 



132 Mans Life of Purpose 

before God frees it? Yes, man's work finished 
well brings for life the firm purpose through which 
that life wins freedom. 

The free purpose of life personal man has. That 
purpose wins wider life of self. Free life purposes 
finally as the Higher Purpose wills. Happy 
thought for men. But would that permitted free- 
dom win the life wider if man lies down purpose- 
less for worth? Would free man think his worth 
may be found without his own purpose? No; life 
wins freedom itself, for thus the higher purpose 
of God wills. Only that life which by its own 
purpose wills worth finds higher life. 

Purpose Higher follows life which is man for 
earth. While life is Purpose Higher follows it. 
But His will makes life's purpose free. While life 
is the free purpose made its power by God wins its 
worth. Then life for which worth is by God pur- 
posed finds that worth by its own purpose. Finally 
the purpose is well used; finally life wills that which 
Higher Purpose wills using the free purpose He 
gives. Worth purposed by man frees life from 
man; that worth life must by its free purpose find. 
Man, the life immortal, frees life for which freedom 
is purposed then, and God's purpose for life per- 
sonal, life immortal, is by that life's free purpose 
fulfilled. 

We who by firm purpose won this life, who would 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 133 

help men to win it, tell this word for help. Man 
himself wins the firm purpose which frees life. Man 
himself wins this higher life. Then, man who pur- 
poses to-day, think what firm purpose means ; think 
what firm purpose wins ; this higher, worthier, wider 
life. Think well. 

Will Higher, life's Maker, made life man for 
earth. His purpose for life life finally fulfills pur- 
posing by free purpose its own. Then for that firm 
purpose which fulfills God's purpose work, man of 
earth. Your free purpose, life's free power, must 
win the worth that life's Maker purposes. Only 
firm purpose wins wider life. Your firm purpose 
must win your life wider. Help men to under- 
stand, O God. 

That firm free will which life learns, that firm 
free purpose which life finds while willing for man's 
life, this man may find if he chooses. Then this 
man may help his life to purpose which wins free- 
dom. Think then, man who would win freed life. 
For firm purpose work, man who wishes wider life. 
Only when that firm purpose is by man found 
may life find wider life. 

That life will worthily while it is man God pur- 
poses. While the man purposes life purposes. 
That which man purposes well life purposes well. 
God purposes for life while it uses its free purpose. 
When by free purpose life of man finds worth, God 



134 Man's Life of Purpose 

purposes for that life wider life; but He wills for 
life that purposes weakly or wickedly the further 
life of work on earth. Man who is free, think. 
What purpose will you find? You choose for your- 
self. 

Work God makes life's portion that life find 
firm purpose. For life man works. His work 
finally teaches life the firm purpose by which life 
wins the wider life. Life when freed purposes 
firmly for that further worth by which it finds yet 
wider, fuller life; yet man finds first firm purpose 
for life. What thought for help here ! Think, man 
who purposes for life immortal. 

Purpose of Him who wills for life forever fol- 
lows life while it purposes for itself. Man who 
is made free wills that which wins the wider life 
which God purposes. Man who lives the finite life 
by the finite powers made his by the purpose of his 
Maker fulfills that purpose. For life made free 
God purposes; for life which finds its worth by free 
choice God purposes worth. Finite power made 
life's power by God's purpose fulfills that purpose. 
Finite purpose fulfills infinite purpose. Man finds 
by his free purpose the worth which life finite is pur- 
posed while it works on earth. Found there the 
reconciliation of finite purpose with the infinite pur- 
pose of man's Maker. 

Will free fulfills the Higher Purpose who made 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 135 

life man. Purpose free fulfills God's purpose for 
life. What food for thought, O men, in this 
thought. Think what we tell you. Man who pur- 
poses as he chooses has the free purpose which 
finally fulfills God's purpose. Will this man use 
that purpose well? He purposes for life; his wise 
free purpose will make this man worthy freedom. 
What food for thought, man who purposes to-day 
for life. 

Purpose Higher rules life that He made. Will 
for life worthy He purposes that life find while it 
wills in the life of man. Well life wills finally, for 
thus Purpose Higher wills. When by free purpose 
man finds the worth which He purposes who wills 
for life, man fulfills the Purpose Higher. Then 
man who purposes that his man's life win worth 
fulfills the higher purpose of life's Maker. 

Firm purpose life finds by the purpose of its 
Maker. Firm purpose helps life while it is. Man, 
the life of free purpose, whose work God purposes 
to be help, wills that life find firm purpose himself. 
Firm purpose life finds finally while it is man. This 
man finds it if he thus wishes. Think, who would 
find freed life. Why wait for firm purpose? 

What for life purposes He who made life? That 
for worth it must purpose. What for purpose 
wills he? That purpose of life be free. Then free 
purpose fulfills the higher purpose of man's Maker. 



136 Mans Life of Purpose 

While life free in purpose wills for man that life 
finds firm purpose. Then by firm purpose life 
fulfills the higher purpose of life's Maker. What 
man fulfills that higher purpose? The man who 
makes his life worthy. Then the life purposes when 
man purposes for freedom, wider life, fuller, wor- 
thier life. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, wills while man 
works that he find for life firm purpose. What 
man finds that firm purpose? This man if he thus 
chooses. What help in this thought, man who 
works! The firm purpose which life finds by the 
purpose of its Maker man finds when he wishes. 
Think well, O man. 

Will free wins for life the worth for wider, fuller, 
happier life. Will for life worthy is free will well 
and firmly used. Worth which life finds while it 
wills for man wins life wider. Man w T ills that worth 
himself, but purpose firm life finds by the purpose 
of Him who made life man. Work man has which 
teaches free purpose, work that wins for life the 
firm purpose willed by life's Maker. Then w T ork 
helps life while it wills as man. Work helps when 
the man wishes. Work purposed man has, work 
that helps life to find the firm purpose which by 
God's purpose life must find. Then man who 
works, finding firm purpose, fulfills God's will. 
Think, who w T ould win wider life. You find while 



Man, the Life of Free Purpose 137 

you work the firm purpose by which life wins 
freedom. 

Well for life purposes the man who makes his life 
worthy freedom. Will free man uses for the worth 
which by God's purpose life must find on earth. 
His purpose fulfills God's purpose. When the 
life who purposes well finds worth for freedom, 
man finds the free power made his the help which 
God purposes it must finally be. When the life 
wins freedom man has won it. Think well, man 
who uses free purpose. That free purpose must 
win for you, the life, the worth for this life. 

When man who wills for life wills well life finds 
that worth which by the purpose of its Maker it 
must find where life is man. Firm purpose will be 
found by life; thus Will Higher wills. But life 
was made free. Then finding weak purpose is 
man's choice. For what has life to will there on 
earth? For the worth which He purposes who 
made life. Then man who freely purposes wills 
that worth which life must. Remember, man of 
earth, that free purpose which you use must win 
for your life its freedom. The firm purpose which 
man finds life holds while it is. Well has man pur- 
posed when life finds freedom, well has life pur- 
posed while it is man. Then, man who is life, 
purpose firmly while you live this man's life. What 
for life purposes its Maker? Worth for life wider 



138 Man's Life of Purpose 

won by itself. Firm purpose wins that worth. 
Think for life, man of earth, think well. 

Man who wills his worth himself wills that worth 
because God thus purposes, yet man wills that 
worth when he wishes. But man wills as life. Then 
life finally fulfills God's purpose willing the worth 
which frees life by his free will. Help men to 
understand this thought; free purpose of man, the 
free purpose of life willed worth, wins that willed 
worth, and life purposed wider life wills itself its 
worth for wider life. Purpose free of life fulfills 
the higher purpose of life's Maker. 



VII 

WILL FOR LIFE WORTHY 



WILL FOR LIFE WORTHY 



Dr. Coulter. 

MAN is the life who finds wider life. 
His worth is the worth of life itself. 
When man wills for life worthy his life 
thus wills. That will by which man 
finds his worth is the will by which life finds worth 
to eternity. What food for thought here! We tell 
it for help. Think, who live man's life. Your will 
it is, yet life's will too, which must make life itself, 
your life, worthy freedom. When you will firmly 
for life worthy life itself wins freedom. 

The life wills while it is man for wider life using 
the man's will, using then its own will free, for man 
is the life on earth. When for life worthy man 
wills the life finds worth; when for life unworthy 
man wills the life is unworthy. God places life on 
earth, purposes that there it find life worthy, but 
He makes life free in will. Man wins the worth 
that personal life wills then, and that worth finally 
frees life from earth. What from this thought fol- 
lows? This man may will unworthily, this life of 

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142 Man's Life of Purpose 

will free may use will weakly, but finally this life 
who wills unworthily in this man finds life worthy. 
The higher purpose for life life fulfills using free 
will. God purposes for life that finally it find in 
man the worth that frees from life of earth. His 
purpose life free in will fulfills. 

Man wins that worth which frees life from earth, 
man finds that firm purpose which helps life when 
freed, man wins the worth by which God purposes 
that life be helped to wider worth when freed. Man 
who wills for life to-day, think. How will you use 
the life of man? Will firm must help the life who 
wishes freedom. Your will it is which must be firm 
for both work and life worthy, for you are the life 
itself. What will you make this life, worthy or 
unworthy? Heed the word, O man. 

Will for life worthy life finds while it is man, 
for thus the will of life's Maker purposes. Man 
wins that will through his life of work, for that life 
teaches firm purpose when the man thus chooses. 
Then work of life is help to worth of life; yes, for 
the firm purpose which helps life to find worth is 
won through the teaching of work. He who thus 
finds firm purpose helps life for its wider life, for 
firm purpose helps life forever. Think, man of 
weak purpose. Help life well you may ; you the man 
have the purpose you wish. What life wins this 
freed life? The life who firmly purposes for worth. 



Will for Life Worthy 143 

What life finds firm purpose? That life who wills 
in man to find it. That which man wills life wills, 
and life finds firm purpose when man thus chooses. 
While life is man it works for wider life; while 
life is man it finds that firm purpose by which it 
wins worth while it is; yet for that firm purpose 
man wills when he wishes. For that firm purpose 
work, O man who has life to free. 

Will Higher, whose purpose that which He 
made fulfills, wills for life worth found by free 
purpose. What finds life by His purpose? Firm 
wise will, firm for work, firm for life worthy. He 
who made life teaches it finally. When will free 
wins for life worth life fulfills the purpose of its 
Maker. 

That which helps man to worth of life helps life 
immortal. Man wills that his worth win freedom ; 
his will firm wins worth for life. While man wills 
using the free will made life's power, he uses the 
will of man ; while man wills for man then, using his 
free will, he wills for life using life's free will. The 
man who wills worth wills for life worth; the man 
who wills unworthiness wills for life unworthiness. 
Man who lives the earth life wins for his immortal 
life wider life using his own free will for worth. 
Then this man who wills for himself worth wins 
wider life for himself, the life immortal. He who 
wills that he himself win worth wills that life win 



144 Mans Life of Purpose 

worth. Then life wins wider life by man's choice. 
Think then, man who wills for life, think well. 

Will for life worthy man finds himself. His 
free will he uses to win the worth which makes life 
immortal worthy wider life. Man lives earth life 
willing for life wider if he wishes thus to will. His 
life worthy is life immortal worthy; his man's worth 
is the worth on earth of life immortal. Then, man 
who wills for life, think. What must you will to 
win for your life immortal wider life, freed from 
man's weakness, full with worth, willing firmly for 
life yet wider while life lasts? Think well, O man. 

Wilberforce. 

That life which finds worth itself finds wider life. 
Man who wills his life worthy wins by that will 
the higher life which God purposes that life shall 
find. 

The worth which life finds it finds by wise use of 
its own free purpose. That purpose which man 
uses frees the life immortal from earth. Then man 
purposes finally the worth which brings wider life. 
But the free purpose man uses for both worth and 
weakness; his will, his purpose, both free, he uses 
well or ill as he chooses. Then the purpose which 
life uses may be by man used unworthily, but 
finally that purpose will be well used, for life wins 
freedom by God's purpose, though it purposes its 



Will for Life Worthy 145 

worth itself. For life man purposes well when the 
life is taught wise free purpose. The life of man 
teaches life immortal wise purpose. Finally life 
purposes worth that frees. Man who firmly pur- 
poses his life worthy finds firm purpose which frees 
life from earth. 

Man wins his worth himself. His worth is life's 
worth. His worth makes life immortal ready for 
the wider life which by God's purpose self finds. 
Wider life wins the wider worth that God purposes 
through wise use of its free will. The first worth 
of life personal man wills. His free will is the free 
power of that life which by God's purpose finds 
wider life. Man wills his worth as life which finds 
finally wider life then, and his free will wins that 
worth which life must. Will free of life wins for 
life the wider life purposed by life's Maker. Will 
free of man wins life's worth for that wider life 
which, by the same free will, wins wider worth 
to eternity. Think, man who has for use life's 
free will, think wisely. 

That will by which life wins its worth for earth 
man uses, for he is the life for earth. Will free 
becomes firm will for life worthy finally, for thus 
Will Higher purposes, but life in man wills for 
worth when it chooses. Will for life worthy life 
finds then when the man will. Well life wills 
finally, helped by its Maker. Help for life man 



146 Mans Life of Purpose 

finds through prayer for that help, yet firmly pur- 
posing himself that his life find worth. 

Work helps life of free purpose, for by work 
finished well the life finds firm free purpose. But 
work may be weakly done. Then the life finds 
but weak purpose. That firm free purpose which 
life finds through work finished well it takes to 
wider life. Firm life is when freed, for the firm 
purpose which it found on earth life holds for- 
ever. Then what for man wills Higher Purpose? 
That for life he find the firm purpose through 
which life personal wins worth to eternity. What 
thought for help this! We tell that man, the free 
life immortal on earth, finally finds the firm pur- 
pose by which life immortal wins its worth while 
life lasts, to eternity. Help men to understand, 
we pray, O God. 

Will for life worthy man finds through prayer 
to his Maker. God wills His help to the life who 
prays for will to fulfill His will. Prayer for will 
worthy may win God's help, or may fall lifeless. 
When prayer wins God's help life finds worth for 
higher life. Will for life worthy life finds for itself 
when helped by life's Maker. Remember this, man 
who would find that will. Pray for God's help hon- 
estly, for thus the life wins that help. 

Purpose of Him who permits to life free pur- 
pose its own follows that life while it freely pur- 



Will for Life Worthy 147 

poses, helping life to firm purpose, teaching life 
while it works. For life He who willed it purposes, 
and that life, free while it is, fulfills His purpose. 
By free purpose its own life finds the worth which 
Purpose Higher wills that it find. While life pur- 
poses as it wishes, life finally fulfills the higher 
purpose of its Maker. The free purpose made 
life's power fulfills God's purpose. Man wills for 
life worthy when he pleases. Life for whom wider 
life is by Higher Purpose willed finally, while it 
purposes in man, wills that which the higher pur- 
pose of God wills that it must, the worth for this 
higher, fuller, happier life. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, wills that while life 
is man it find the worth for wider life. Then man 
finds that worth himself. His firm purpose wins 
that worth which by Higher Will life personal finds 
on earth. Man is the life who wills for life wider. 
Man, who wills by free will, finds for life immortal 
the worth which frees life immortal from earth. 
Think, man of free purpose. When you purpose 
firmly for life worthy you win for life personal 
wider life of freedom. Firm purpose this man 
finds if he thus wishes. Think, who would find free- 
dom, Will for that firm purpose which helps life 
for the life of earth and forever. 

Will for life worthy life of man finds finally. 
While life wills for that worth which Will Higher 



148 Man's Life of Purpose 

purposes, His purpose follows it. Then when life 
finds the worth for freedom it fulfills God's pur- 
pose. Then man who wills that his life be worthy 
fulfills God's purpose. What for life purposes the 
Wilier of Life? Worth found by itself. Then 
life who wills for worth fulfills thus the purpose 
of Higher Will. But man may will weakness ; then 
that life fulfills not God's purpose. Man who wills 
for life, think. While you will your life may find 
the worth which life's Maker purposes. Think 
well. 

Will for life worthy man finds when he wishes. 
Man wins by his free will then the worth of life 
immortal. That thought means much, man who 
wills for life. Personal life wins the life wider. 
Man wins for life personal the worth which wins 
personal wider life. Think, who would win wider 
life. Will that wins that life is man's free will. 
Win that life wider this man may. Why wait then, 
man who is life immortal, why wait for that firm 
will for life worthy which makes life ready for 
wider life? You yourself win that will when you 
choose. Think well, O man. 

Man himself wills that life personal find the life 
of freedom. His free will he uses for his worth 
of life. That will he himself makes firm for life 
worthy. Then by man's free will life of personal 
self wins the wider life which God purposes. Think 



Will for Life Worthy 149 

what I tell. — Man, who wills freely always, wins 
for life personal the wider life of freedom if he thus 
wishes. Heed the word, O man. 

Miltiades. 

The free will of man wins life worthy. For 
worth purposed by God man wills by his free 
power, will of life. That life who firmly purposes 
for both work and for worth of life finds finally 
the wider life purposed by life's Maker. For man 
purpose was willed to be free; then free purpose 
finally fulfills the purpose of Him who makes life 
free. The man who wills for life worthy, choosing 
thus to will, fulfills by that free power God's pur- 
pose. Wise life becomes through the teaching of 
Will Higher. Taught life finds firm its will for 
worth. God frees life when it finds firm will for 
worth of life. Only that life who finds that firm 
will finds freedom. 

Will for life worthy life finds when man wishes. 
Then man who wishes that will helps life. When 
this man wishes then he may find the firm will for 
life worthy which wins freedom. Have the words 
helped you, man who wills for life? You find if 
you wish the firm will for worth of life which wins 
better life. 

Will for life worthy man finds who thus wishes. 
He who finds that will wins for life personal wider 



150 Mans Life of Purpose 

life. This man who wills may find that will. You 
who will for this man that his life win worth will 
that the life immortal win life freed. Why wait to 
find that will, man who wills for life? 

That firm will for life worthy which man finds 
who thus wishes helps life while it is, for that firm 
will life takes to freed and wider life. Why then 
wait to find that firm will, man who works for life ; 
why wait to win freedom? This time will firm may 
win freedom. Think well, O man. 

When by firm purpose, firm for life worthy, life 
of self wins this life, will for life worthy is forever 
firm. Won by man who purposes for that part of 
life immortal which it passes working on earth is 
the firm purpose which life holds to eternity. What 
thought for help, O men! 

Purpose higher, purpose of Him who purposes 
for life while it is, helps life which He made while 
it wills for life wider. That help life finds through 
prayer honest. That help find, man who has life 
to free; find God's help through prayer; find that 
willing help through work for life worthy; find that 
help while life prepares by your free will for the 
wider life of freedom from earth. That help man 
finds by prayer and work; prayer that life will as 
God wills, prayer that life work for wider life will- 
ing its work heartily, willing then for life with firm 
unwavering will. Helped by Higher Purpose life 



Will for Life Worthy 151 

wills for the wider life; helped by its Maker life 
finds freed life. Think, you who have life's free 
purpose, think. When you waver, pray for help. 
Firm purpose will help that life who honestly prays 
for God's help. 



VIII 

MAN THE THINKING LIFE 



MAN THE THINKING LIFE 

Dr. Coulter. 

IT "^ILL Higher made man the think- 



higher power than himself. The thinking being 
given the first wise thought thinks from that to fur- 
ther wise thought. Man thinks from first willed 
thought to his worship of that higher power. 
Willed to find thought of worship, man thinks fur- 
ther. Wise thought of prayer and thanks he finds. 
Then man has found his God. 

Will Higher made life, willed for that life higher 
life than that of man, willed life to be thinking life, 
made man life for earth, purposes for that life wis- 
dom found by its own thinking, willed to that life 
thought which helps life while it is. Man, life that 
thinks, was willed the first wise thought that helps 
life forever, that of higher power than himself. 
From that thought man finds the God whom life 
worships forever. 




ing life. The first thought wise man 
finds by the purpose of his Maker. 
That first wise thought is that of 



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156 Man's Life of Purpose 

The wisdom which man finds is part of the wis- 
dom purposed for immortal life. That wisdom 
won by life in man helps life freed. The wisdom 
first made life's help in man was purposed for life 
of will and purpose when life was made. Man 
finds wisdom as the Purpose Higher wills, through 
his use of work, through his use of mind that thinks, 
through his wise use of the powers God makes his : 
that wisdom helps life forever. What help from 
this thought for men! We tell that life who works 
for mind on earth finds wisdom that helps life for- 
ever. That power which man uses for thought is 
the power of life immortal. The life thinks when 
man thinks. Life willed wider life finds first wis- 
dom through man's wise use of the power God 
made life's power, mind that thinks. 

Man, the life willed mind that thinks, finds by 
the purpose of his Maker first wise thought then, 
and from that first thought thinking further, finds 
the thought — man was made by that higher power. 
That first wise thought, higher power, brings fur- 
ther thought of higher purpose. From wise first 
thought then is found the philosophy which helps 
man. 

We tell that life finds first wise thought in man, 
and from that willed thought finds wisdom which 
helps man for his life, and life wider forever. 



Man the Thinking Life 157 

Wilberforce. 

The first wise thought of man is the willed 
thought, higher power than himself. From that 
first thought which man finds by purpose of his 
Maker he finds his further wisdom. Will Higher, 
who made man thinking life, purposes for that life 
help from thought of Himself. From the thought 
of higher power than himself comes man's thought 
of God. 

Will Higher purposes for life wisdom found 
from the willed first wise thought. Man finds wis- 
dom for his life of earth, freed life finds wisdom 
for that life from the thought which God wills that 
man find. That willed first thought founds the 
wisdom of life immortal. 

Miltiades. 

Wise thought which helps man's life he finds by 
his Maker's purpose. That wisdom which life 
finds from the first willed thought has brought to 
man his theology. Life finite wishes to know its 
Maker, but from man's unaided wisdom life would 
find Him not. Then wisdom that helps man's life 
he finds by his Maker's purpose. The first wise 
thought, higher power than man himself, founds 
his wisdom for life. 

Help for life that first thought is purposed to 
be. That wisdom which first helps life of man 



158 Man's Life of Purpose 

helps that life forever. Life purposed higher life 
finds wisdom first in man. 

The power, mind, which man has, that power by 
which he finds his wisdom, is life's power. Mind 
that thinks helps life while it is. Man thinks for 
life's first wisdom from the willed first helping 
thought. The wisdom by which life finds the wider 
thought of life freed is founded upon that first 
wise thought willed by man's Maker. From man's 
first wise thinking life finds wisdom which it holds 
while it is. 



IX 

WORTH OF LIFE IN MAN 



WORTH OF LIFE IN MAN 

Dr. Coulter. 

THE man who purposes that his life be 
worthy helps life itself to worth. That 
which life must find by God's purpose it 
finds by man's free will. Willed worth 
found by life in man, willed higher life, self immor- 
tal wins by man's free choice the worth which God 
purposes for life on earth. Though man is free, 
the Higher Will purposes that life become worthy 
higher life, and His purpose man fulfills of his own 
free choice. Finally that which life must find on 
earth man finds. Worth which life wins by man's 
free will brings to that life help that lasts while 
life is. 

The life of man wills its worth by free will its 
own, but Purpose Higher wills for the life that it 
find worth. Man is life personal, whose will of ne- 
cessity is free; yet will of God rules the personal 
life. Man wills as his life pleases, but that will 
which God makes the power of life itself wins 
finally that worth which God purposes. That life 

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162 Man's Life of Purpose 

for which free will is purposed to be help forever 
has God's purpose to fulfill. By free will that life 
fulfills the higher purpose of life's Maker. Will 
free of life man uses ; that power must win for life 
in man that worth which God purposes. Then the 
free choice of man must fulfill God's purpose. 
What man wills worth for higher life? The man 
who first wills for life? Perhaps not, but life 
finally wills for itself the purposed worth. In this 
man life may will wickedness, for man has free 
will; but the man who last incarnates life purposed 
worth finds that worth, thus by his free choice ful- 
filling the higher purpose of life's Maker. 

That worth of life which God purposes that the 
life shall reach on earth is by man found. That 
life which is man wins its purposed worth by its 
free will. That power is made man's power as life 
for which higher worth than that of man is pur- 
posed by the Maker of All. Then that worth which 
God purposes is found by life in man through wise 
use of the power which He makes life's free power, 
will its own. Man wills as life which must find 
worth; man's will is free; the purposed worth is 
found then by man himself. 

The life which is man for earth finally wins the 
worth for the wider life for which life personal is 
destined. Man who wills for his life as he pleases 
is yet life purposed worth. Man wills that worth 



Worth of Life in Man 163 

which life must by his free will. The life purposed 
wider life finds the worth for wider life willing as it 
pleases; but that life is taught by the work and 
life of man to choose worth. Finally the life per- 
sonal chooses worth, and God's purpose is ful- 
filled by life's free will. 

Man wins his worth of life by free will, but that 
worth his life is by God purposed to win of free 
will. Man wins the worth which frees life using 
life's free will. Then that life who wins worth in 
man finds freedom. What worth frees life? What 
life is worthy the purposed wider life? That life 
who purposes firmly that to-day the work be well 
finished ; that to-day it work better than yesterday, 
that to-day be used well ; that will be worthily used 
to-day ; that the personal self who works this man's 
work, the personal self who wills for this man, 
be ready for wider life and work; that mind, will, 
purpose, those powers given to life by God, all be 
worthy wider life and better work; that life finds 
freedom. The life who thus fights for wider life 
frees itself from earth. Then will of man wins 
freedom from earth and wider life, for man is the 
personal life who fights on earth for freedom. 
When man wins life freed life personal has won it. 
That life who wishes this life may by purpose un- 
wavering win it. God wills for the life firm will, 
firm purpose found by the man himself. Think, 



164 Man's Life of Purpose 

who would win freedom. Will firm, purpose firm 
help life to win the worth which God purposes, the 
worth that wins this wider life of freedom. 

Man who wills of free will finally wills that 
which God purposes. Would this mean that man 
forced to worth finds it? No; the free will of life 
man uses ; not forced, but choosing worth, life wills 
finally in man. Will free wins purposed worth. 
That power, will free, wins life's worth forever. 
None will by other than free will of men or of 
freed lives. Man the personal life forced to worth? 
Would that be personal life which, forced to worth, 
finds it? Would life which wills to-day as it wishes 
be forced to-morrow to will otherwise than as it 
wishes? Worth that life personal wins is won 
necessarily of freed will. By free will, not forced, 
man the personal life wills. While that life wills 
God teaches it ; while that life purposes God teaches 
it. The will of life man has; that will, free for 
worth or unworthiness, fulfills God's purpose when 
the life is taught wisdom by man's life and work. 
Will for life worthy man the life personal finally 
finds because finally his life is taught wise free pur- 
pose. Wise free purpose wins wider life. Full of 
meaning this thought. When life learns what God 
purposes, wisdom in use of free will and purpose, 
the life finds worth for wider life. Worth that 
wins this wider life must be found by man of free 



Worth of Life in Man 165 

will. That worth found, life finds fuller worth by 
firm wise use of the will taught in man. 

That worth of life which man finds life takes to 
wider life; but wider worth life is purposed than 
that which it finds in man. Worth that wider life 
finds it finds using the purpose firm won in man; 
but life finds purpose for higher worth than it finds 
in man. Will for life worthy life first finds in 
man; then life which finds worth in man prepares 
thus for higher worth than that of man. The worth 
of life which man finds frees that life from earth, 
and life wider finds worth for still wider life, using 
for help its first worth found by man. Think, who 
use man's life unworthily. That life who wills un- 
worthiness holds itself to life of earth; that life 
who firmly purposes for worth finds wider life. 

The power, free will, belongs to the life per- 
sonal. That life of personal self wills with free 
will, not bound will; yet Purpose Higher wills for 
the personal life that by free will it win the worth 
for higher life. What will does life use then? 
The power of personal self. With that power life 
which is bound by Higher Purpose fulfills the 
Higher Purpose; with free will life personal wins 
personal worth ; but worth personal is purposed by 
the Higher Purpose which life made fulfills. By 
will its own life personal, purposed worth by 
Higher Purpose, finds that purposed worth. Man 



166 Mans Life of Purpose 

wills his worth himself, though Higher Will pur- 
poses that life find worth. Man's free will fulfills 
the higher purpose of God. 

Will Higher, who made life for worlds man, 
Will Higher who rules while it is the life which 
He made, was when life willed by Him was not. 
His will follows the life made by Him while it is. 
Will for life worthy He purposes that life made 
shall find; His purpose makes life free in will; 
yet by free will life made fulfills His purpose. Man 
who wills by his free will is life willed the worth 
which brings higher life. Man who lives earth 
life wills for the wider life purposed by God using 
the free will made his power by God. Man who 
makes his life worthy by his own purpose, by life 
worthy won by himself fulfills God's purpose. 
Will Higher wills for life will free, wills for life 
worth won by itself, wills for life wider life than 
that of man, purposes that life be personal self, 
purposes for personal self wider personal life, wills 
that personal self find wider life through wise use 
of personal free will. That which Higher Will 
purposes the life made by Him fulfills as He pur- 
poses, by the wise use of its own free will and pur- 
pose. 

Man who finds worth by his own purpose finds 
that worth by God's purpose. The will free brings 
then the worth which life must find. Man who 



Worth of Life in Man 167 

makes his life worthy fulfills God's purpose. Then 
the man who makes his life unworthy has not ful- 
filled the Higher Purpose whose will life must ful- 
fill. That life then waits to fulfill the Higher Pur- 
pose through many incarnations perhaps, willing 
better in each, until finally it wills the worth which 
life must find to fulfill God's purpose. What 
would man find who wills unworthily, then? Fur- 
ther work and life on earth, further life as man. 
Weak life remains man; firm life wins the worth 
finally that brings freedom from man and earth. 
Think, man who wills to-day, think wisely. 

Man wins the life freed by his life worthy. Man 
wins that life for personal self which is purposed 
worth, but is willed free purpose its own. The 
worth that God purposes must then be won by life 
of purpose free. Would life which Will Higher 
made free find worth otherwise than by free pur- 
pose? No, man wins his worth himself. Man of 
free purpose wins the freedom for life which God 
wills, using free purpose his own. Free will, free 
purpose, fulfill God's purpose. What will that life 
who has free purpose find when it purposes weakly? 
Penalty. What penalty? Work of man again. 
Would that be penalty sufficient to teach wise use 
of free purpose? We know it is, for life remem- 
bers both wise and foolish work and life in man. 
When freed, life has worked and purposed well, 



168 Man's Life of Purpose 

we know. Wise life becomes through God's teach- 
ing; wise life finds worth choosing worth; wise life, 
taught wisdom by God's teaching, wins of firm 
free purpose the life freed. 

The life worthy finds higher life. The life of 
man finds that worth by which immortal personal 
self wins higher life. That worth man himself 
finds. Worth which frees personal life, worth that 
life personal takes to higher life, must be won by 
man. The worth which frees life is won by man 
who uses well the personal powers with which Will 
Higher endows life of self. Think what man has; 
the powers which win, when the life wishes, the 
worth which frees personal life from earth. 

Man, who is life personal, who is also life finite, 
finds by his personal choice the finite worth of made 
life. God, who is Maker of life, made man the 
finite being of finite worth. Man who lives finite 
life, who uses finite will, by finite will fulfills the 
purpose of the Wilier of Life. Man who wills of 
free will, being made personal self, finds by per- 
sonal free will the worth purposed by the will of 
his Maker. Will Higher makes life free, but life 
free fulfills His purpose. Then man who is life 
finite fulfills by finite will the purpose of infinite 
God; man, who wills his worth himself, wills that 
which life must, for his life is ruled by the pur- 
pose of its Maker. There find reconciliation of 



Worth of Life in Man 169 

man's free will with God's purpose for life. 

That life finally become worthy freedom from 
earth God purposes; that life find itself the worth 
for freedom God purposes. Have the words helped 
to wise thinking, O men? That man who wills 
for life worthy wins freedom. Has this thought 
helped, O men? That by purpose its own life find 
worth God purposes. Has this thought helped? 
When purpose is firmly used for life worthy God 
frees the life; when purpose is weakly or wickedly 
used, He holds life to earth. Has this thought 
helped, O men? The work which you have wins 
firm purpose when you will, O man. Has this 
thought helped? For life man purposes. Help 
men to understand, we pray Thee, O God. 

That life while it is man find worth for wider 
life God purposes, but to life He wills free pur- 
pose. Then by free purpose given by God life ful- 
fills His purpose. What for life purposes He? 
Life wider, wider to eternity, life willing for worth 
to eternity, life finding of free purpose wider worth 
to eternity. O God, help this work for help with 
Thy blessing. 

The life worthy of man frees life immortal from 
the world of man's life and work. That life find 
worth itself God wills; then the life who chooses 
worth fulfills His purpose. What future will life 
find who thus fulfills the will of its Maker? Happy 



170 Mans Life of Purpose 

life freed from the weakness of infirm purpose; 
that future Will Higher purposes for the life who 
wills firmly for worth in man. Hope, life of man, 
but work for life worthy. You find by your own 
free purpose the worth by which life immortal wins 
happy freed life. 

When for life worthy man purposes firmly, life 
finds that help by which it wins freed life. That 
purpose which life finds while working man's work 
helps life for wider life, and life wider holds firm 
the purpose won in man. What helpful thought, 
O men, we tell you! What hope we give! Life 
finally purposes well, for God purposes that it 
must thus purpose. That for life purpose be finally 
firm for worth He wills. You the life find firm 
purpose now if you thus choose. You thus fulfill 
God's purpose now. Why wait then, man who has 
life to free? Think well. 

Will Higher purposes that while it wills for man 
life become worthy wider life. Then man the life 
finds by his free purpose the worth that wins life 
wider. Well the life purposes finally in man, for 
the purpose of its Maker life fulfills. But when 
the life wills weakly that purpose it fulfills not. 
Then man who wills fulfills God's purpose when 
his life is made worthy life wider. That thought 
we tell to help men. Heed the word, O man. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, purposes for man. 



Worth of Life in Man 171 

While man wills, free to will as he pleases, Higher 
Will purposes for him. Then by the free will which 
man has he fulfills the Higher Purpose of God. 
Man wills himself that worth which Will Higher 
purposes for life on earth. Man wills himself the 
worth for wider life. When man wills that his life 
find worth, he wills for immortal self; when man 
wills wickedness he thus wills for life immortal. 
Man then wills for life immortal the worth for 
wider life, or the worth for earth life once more. 
Think, who would find wider life. Man himself 
wills that life win wider life. Have the words 
helped you, man who wills for life? 

Man who is life personal wills his own worth, 
though that worth must be found, for thus Will 
Higher purposes. Would that mean that life wills 
for worth forced thus to will? That worth which 
Higher Will purposes is found by life to whom 
He wills free will. Man wills that which life must 
will, using his own free will. But man's worth is 
by God purposed, and his will must make his life 
worthy. Why then will for life worthy? God pur- 
poses that life find worth. Would the will free 
be used well by life who thus depends for worth 
on Higher Purpose? Would life worthy be found 
were life forced to will for worth? Man is life 
purposed life worthy. His way to life worthy God 
purposes. That way is through free will his own. 



172 Man's Life of Purpose 

What for the personal life purposes its Maker? 
Personal life worthy, personal worth won by life's 
will free. Man who thinks will find help from this 
word. Then this man who wills for life now wills 
that which makes life worthy the wider life which 
God purposes, or that which fulfills not the pur- 
pose of his Maker. Will Higher purposes for life 
that by will its own, the free will which He wills 
that life use while it is, life win the worth which 
makes it ready for wider, fuller life. When man, 
who wills by free will, wills that worth which God 
purposes for life on earth, the purpose of life's 
Maker for life on earth is thus fulfilled. Man who 
would win wider life, think. 

Man wills as he wishes for his work and for his 
life. Man wills for life while life works the work 
purposed for life on earth. Then while man wills 
life finds the firm purpose which by God's purpose 
it must find on earth. When life has worked well 
in man, finding firm purpose, life has won life 
wider. Help men to understand, we pray Thee, O 
God. 

Wilberforce. 

Worth of life man finds by free purpose his own; 
but that worth is purposed for life by its Wilier, 
God. Then life finds worth purposed willing for 
itself. Yes, life free in purpose finds the worth 



Worth of Life in Man 173 

that by God's purpose it must, using free purpose 
which He gives. While life lasts the will and pur- 
pose are free; while life lasts the worth which is 
purposed by God life finds by will and purpose its 
own. 

Worth of life man finds by purpose of God. 
While life wills in man on earth it prepares for 
wider, fuller life. Man wins the worth for fuller 
life by his worth. That freedom which God pur- 
poses for life immortal must be won by man's 
worth. God purposes for the life of personal self 
wider, fuller, better life. Won by the free pur- 
pose of man is the freedom which by God's purpose 
life must find. 

We who tell the words which will, we hope, help 
men, were men. The life was man which is freed 
life. The will free helped man's life as it is pur- 
posed to help by God. Man wins this life by will 
his own, yet God purposes that his life win it. 
Man frees life then? No; God judges when the 
life is worthy freedom; but the man wills himself 
the worth for freedom. But if God purposes that 
life win freedom, how is it that man wins the worth 
himself? That worth which man wins of his free 
purpose is purposed by God. Then man fulfills 
God's purpose when his free will makes his life 
worthy. Yes. We tell this for help — to win free- 
dom, though it be by Higher Will purposed, man 



174 Man's Life of Purpose 

must himself make his life worthy. Heed the word, 
O man who wills for life. 

Will Higher of life's Maker wills for life per- 
sonal higher life. Man is the life which finds by 
God's purpose higher life. Then man who wills 
finds the worth which brings higher life. What 
must man will to win the higher life purposed? 
Worth daily; work finished daily; will firmly used 
each day; purpose firm each day used. Why wait 
then for to-morrow, man who would win wider life ? 
To-day you have for use. To-day will helps life 
if you choose. To-day firm purpose helps life. 
Think, man who would find freedom, think well. 

Man wills his worth by free will, but the life 
which is man finds worth by God's purpose. Then 
man of free will fulfills God's purpose for his life. 
Why then may man will unworthiness ? Because 
he is free to will as he wishes. But that worth 
which is by God purposed the life must find, for 
God is Omnipotent Will. But that would make 
life bound by the Higher Purpose though it is 
free. Yes, life is free to will in this man, free to 
will in the many men who incarnate the one life, 
but the power free will is made life's power by 
Purpose who wills that it be finally used for worth. 
Must compels life then finally? Yes, God's pur- 
pose life made free must fulfill using free will. This 
means that life which wills while it is man as it 



Worth of Life in Man 175 

wishes, worth or unworthiness, finally wills worth 
because it must, being bound by Omnipotent Pur- 
pose. That free power of life, will, was made free 
that life for which freedom is by God purposed 
find its worth for freedom by its free choice. Man 
is life for which worth for higher life is by God pur- 
posed ; that life fulfills God's purpose using its free 
power, will, given that life win its worth itself. 
Man wills finally that which Purpose Higher wills, 
the worth which wins freedom. 

Man who incarnates life of personal self is body 
physical; the life of self is life of far greater worth 
than body physical. What must life for which 
higher life is purposed will while using the body 
physical? Worth which frees that life from the 
world of life physical. Only thus would life win 
the wider life which God purposes. Body physical 
is for earth; life for which personal self is pur- 
posed wins far higher life than that of earth. Body 
physical life leaves on earth; self it is who wins 
higher life. 

Will Higher, life's Wilier, Life who is Infinite, 
man's help to life worthy, wills for man the free 
will which he uses on earth. Will for life worthy 
man finds, for thus Will Higher purposes. But 
that freedom which He wills for life immortal 
must be won by wise use of free will. God pur- 
poses for life finite that by finite will it find the 



176 Man's Life of Purpose 

worth for wider life. For that worth man wills 
when he wishes, but free will finally wins freedom 
for life immortal. When life finds free will the 
help which it is by God purposed to become, when 
life free in will wills for worth firmly, when life 
by its free purpose finds worth, God judges that 
life. Then life who by free purpose wins the worth 
which God purposes finds the wider life which for 
personal self He who made life purposes. 

Worth of life man finds finally, for worth of 
life must be found by life on earth. Man wills of 
free will that worth which life finds by God's pur- 
pose. Worth of life which man finds frees life 
from man. Worth which life must find by the 
Higher Purpose must be by will free won. All 
lives finally find that worth; not one but finds it 
finally. Then will free wins this life, for will free 
wins man's worth. 

For life man wills, but realizes it but partly. 
Will firm life must find while man wills. For life 
worthy man must will firmly if he purposes to win 
that wider life which God purposes, but which life 
wins by its free will. For life man wills; his free 
will wins freedom when he has found the worth 
that life must find on earth; man wills his worth 
himself. What thought for help there ! Find help 
from it, man who wishes wider, fuller, happier life. 

Will Higher purposes for life worth found by 



Worth of Life in Man 177 

itself. That wise free will by which man wins his 
life worthy is life's power; that purpose which man 
has is life's power; when man uses life's free pow- 
ers wisely the life finds the worth which by God's 
purpose it must find on earth. Man himself wins 
the wider life then, willing worth of life by his free 
will. 

Will Higher, man's Maker, life's Wilier, made 
man personal life whose free will man uses as he 
wishes. Man the personal life finds worth by free 
will his own for the wider life which God purposes 
that life personal shall find. Worth of life found 
by personal man the life personal takes to wider 
life. The worth of personal life in man brings 
for life the wider personal life which is by God 
purposed. Will Higher wills for life personal the 
free will of life personal, which power, used by life 
personal, finally wins that worth for wider life 
which God wills that life on earth shall win. Then 
man, the personal life, fulfills God's purpose by 
wise use of his free will. Made life immortal, willed 
far wider worth than life finds on earth, willed free 
will its own, life personal finds its worth while it 
is man and forever by wise use of its own free will. 

The life who wishes life worthy finds it. Work 
teaches firm purpose ; life needs firm purpose while 
in man, while it is. Man finds by the teaching of 
work that firm purpose through which life finds 



178 Man's Life of Purpose 

its worth. Will for life worthy is life's help. Man 
works that life find that will. Help men to un- 
derstand the word, O God. 

What worth does life win on earth? The worth 
which man wins using free will. Then man wills 
himself that worth which life must find. The wider 
life finds free will its help, for by free will life finds 
its worth forever. Man finds first worth of life im- 
mortal of his free will; life wider finds its worth 
always using free will. God teaches life in man 
wise use of free will; that life who finds by God's 
teaching firm, wise free will has found that which 
life by His purpose must find. That firm, wise, 
free will life uses for its worth while it is. Help 
men to understand, we pray Thee, O God. 

What will has life while it is man? The free 
power of life personal. What purpose? Man's 
purpose is, like the will, the free power of life per- 
sonal. That life personal works man's work, lives 
man's life, thinks man's thought, finds man's worth. 
Would man who finds firm purpose win for life 
wider firm purpose? Yes; the man who finds firm 
purpose wins firm purpose for the life of immor- 
tality. Will firm life needs when freed, purpose 
firm life needs when freed, mind well used helps 
life when freed. Why wait then, man of earth, 
to wisely use those free powers of personal life? 
Won by that life who wisely uses all those powers 



Worth of Life in Man 179 

is life worthy freedom. 

When purpose of man wins for life free worth 
willed by Higher Purpose, man fulfills God's will. 
When life free to will as it pleases chooses worth, 
life fulfills God's will. Personal life man is, will 
of personal life he uses. Will free then man uses 
to fulfill the Higher Will whose purpose that which 
He made must fulfill. What man fulfills the higher 
purpose? That man who of free will becomes wor- 
thy; that man fulfills God's will, for that man 
chooses the worth which life made must find finally. 
That man then who finitely wills, by willing for 
worth fulfills the purpose of Infinite Will. 

Will Higher makes life free in purpose; Will 
Higher wills that of free purpose life find worth 
for higher life; man, the willed life, man the willed 
being of free purpose, man who purposes for his 
worth choosing worth when he wishes, is the life 
for which Will Higher wills worth. Life of man 
who wills freely is life of man until will and pur- 
pose free win that worth which is by Will Higher 
willed. Man, the life personal who wills as he 
wishes, man who purposes his worth himself, is 
the life which by the will of God must find worth. 
Then man wins purposed worth of his own free pur- 
pose. There we find the reconciliation of man's 
free purpose with the omnipotent purpose of God. 

That life find firm purpose while living in man 



180 Man's Life of Purpose 

Will Higher purposes ; that life find firm purpose 
by its free choice Will Higher purposes ; that pur- 
pose for life worthy life find in man Will Higher 
purposes; that will free, purpose free, fulfill the 
purpose of higher will God purposes. For what 
life wills man then? For that life which finally 
finds firm purpose. What helps man, the life? 
Firm purpose. What helps life when freed? Firm 
purpose. That thought will help you, man who pur- 
poses for life, for that thought helps when purpose 
weakens. For life immortal man purposes. That 
life immortal finally finds the firm purpose because 
Will Higher thus purposes, but the life while it 
wills on earth finds that firm purpose by man's 
own free choice. Then will and purpose firmly for 
life, O man. Will Higher helps weak purpose if 
life wishes that help. Will for life worthy man 
finds by his free purpose helped by the help of God 
Himself. 

Will higher, will of Him who made life free, 
man fulfills when by his free purpose he wins that 
worth which life on earth must finally find. Will 
for life worthy God wills that life must find, but 
life made free finds that will itself. Work pur- 
posed to teach life finally teaches that firm purpose 
which God wills that life in man shall find. Work 
purposed to teach teaches that life which Will 
Higher makes free. Will Higher wills that life 



Worth of Life in Man 181 

win of free purpose its own the worth for wider, 
fuller life. Will free, purpose free, fulfill finally 
God's higher purpose. 

The life wills itself for wider life, for by will free 
it wills for worth. That life who, freely willing, 
wins the worth purposed for life on earth, finds 
wider life. What has life to find to fulfill God's 
purpose. Worth for wider life won by its free will. 
Help men to understand, we pray Thee, O God. 

We who have won by free purpose the life wider 
help the man who will think. The wider life be- 
gins when life of man is from earth freed. That 
firm purpose which won its freedom the freed life 
holds while it is. Man wins that firm purpose 
which helps life freed while it is. Man wins for 
life immortal the wider life, using for the worth 
of his life free purpose his own. Man wins wider 
life himself. Will free must win the worth of man, 
which worth brings for life immortal its freed life 
that is full with wider powers, full with happy 
work, and thankful for its freedom. When that 
life is found man has won it. Think, man who wills 
for life immortal. 

Will for life worthy man the life finds, for that 
is the will of man's Maker, but free the man is to 
will well or ill. That for which God purposes life 
free in will purposes finally. When of free pur- 
pose life finds the worth which it must on earth 



182 Man's Life of Purpose 

find, God frees it forever from earth; but till firm 
purpose life finds, He wills for it further life of 
man. Then firmly purpose for both work and life 
worthy, man who has life to free. 

Worth of life man wins by his own will, the free 
will he has from his Maker. The life who wishes 
to find worth finds it; the life who wishes unwor- 
thiness finds that. What life would for always will 
unworthiness ? None; for that God forbids. His 
purpose teaches life well, till the wish is for life 
worthy. Man who wills unworthiness to-day holds 
life to earth, but finally life is taught to wish for 
life worthy. God teaches well, He teaches surely; 
no life made wills unworthiness for always, no life 
made wins freedom forced. Will free wins the 
freedom God purposes. Heed the word, man 
of earth. You must free life if you wish free- 
dom. 

Man, whose life is willed worth for wider life 
than that of earth, has the powers of personal self, 
will free, purpose free, will and purpose that win, 
when he wishes, that worth by which life personal 
is made ready for higher life. Then what man 
uses life's powers well? This man if he chooses; 
his free powers, life's free powers they are, he uses 
well when he wishes. Then this man may free his 
life? Why have we worked, O men? For that very 
thought. This man may free his life, this man who 



Worth of Life in Man 183 

lives to-day. We know that we tell helpful thought. 
Heed our word, O men. 

Miltiades. 

That worth of life which life finds by the higher 
purpose of God man finds using the free will which 
man has by that higher purpose. That will, though 
wholly free, is by the life of man taught wisdom. 
Man lives earth life, wins by his free choice worth, 
wins by his free choice freedom for his life immortal, 
which worth and freedom life finds through the 
higher purpose of God. That purpose is omnipo- 
tent. The life made by God fulfills His purpose by 
its own free will. Man wills freely for worth or un- 
worthiness, but his life is willed worth by Higher 
Purpose. That worth life must find by the will 
God wills to be man's power, the free will of life 
immortal. 

Will Higher, who purposes for life while it is, 
wills that life find worth in man for the freedom 
He purposes. Man wins that freedom himself, 
though it is by Higher Will purposed. The free 
purpose which He who rules life makes man's 
power He makes life's power. Then life which 
finds worth by free will its own fulfills the purpose 
of Higher Will. God wills that life of free will 
fulfill by free will His purpose. 

That worth which life finds in man, that worth 



184 Man's Life of Purpose 

which life finds by the Higher Purpose of life's 
Maker, man himself finds. His will, the will of 
personal life, made the power of life personal by the 
Will Higher, man uses while he finds the purposed 
worth. That purposed worth must be found by life 
in man, for the purpose of its Maker life must ful- 
fill; yet life is free both while it is man and forever. 
While life wills in man then, it finds the worth 
by which it is made ready for the wider life which 
Higher Purpose wills for personal self. By its 
free power, will of life personal, life purposed worth 
for higher, fuller life, finds that purposed worth. 
Man, who is life for which higher life is purposed, 
finds his worth by his free will; then life in man, 
whose worth is purposed, finds that purposed worth 
by man's free will. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life that wills for 
itself must fulfill, purposes for life worth found 
by free purpose its own. Man the personal life 
finds worth by use of his own purpose; but life who 
is by God purposed wider life finds the wider life. 
Then man, who purposes for his life as he wishes, 
finds by free choice finally the worth which wins 
wider life. But what man finds that worth? This 
man wills not bound but wholly free. For man 
life personal is willed; that life finds the wider life. 
The life of personal self, while working in man, 
while living man's earth life, wins the freedom and 



Worth of Life in Man 185 

wider life which God purposes. This man who is 
wholly free may will that which helps little his life ; 
this man may choose unworthiness ; then this man 
wills that his life work further the man's work, live 
again the man's life. But man the personal life is 
freed from weakness finally through God's teach- 
ing. Man wins freedom? No, personal life of self 
wins freedom. Man who wills weakly finds but the 
worth for further life on earth. But life willed 
worth must find it. That life win freedom while 
using the life and work of earth God purposes. 
The life who finally uses that life well finds the 
worth which frees from earth. 

Will free makes life which is purposed wider life 
worthy wider life. Will for worth life learns 
through the life of man on earth. Will free wins 
that wider life which was from the willing of life 
purposed. Man who wills that which he wishes, 
man who wills finally that which God purposes, is 
life which God rules. That life which God rules ful- 
fills by free will His purpose. Man wins the worth 
which frees life from earth using the free will which 
God purposes shall win that worth. 

Worth of life found in man life takes to free- 
dom from man. Self finds that worth. Won by 
man's free purpose, won by the life which wills for 
itself always, life freed is then. The worth for 
which life wills in man, purposed worth that life 



186 Man's Life of Purpose 

must find, man finds himself. Will free man has. 
Then by will free life finds man's worth. God pur- 
poses for life personal higher life than that of earth ; 
He makes life free; the life finds its freedom using 
personal free will. Life for which worth is pur- 
posed by God finds that worth itself. 

Will Higher purposes while life is man for that 
life. His purpose life fulfills, though He makes 
it free. The will of life, free as air though it be, 
must finally make that life worthy in man. That 
worth which God purposes that life find in man 
wins for the life the freedom which was from the 
willing of life purposed. Man wills his worth him- 
self, but that worth God purposes. Self of man, 
life immortal, finds the worth which God purposes 
by wise use of its own free purpose. 

Will free man has. The free power which life 
uses while it is, man uses for his life of earth. That 
free power makes life worthy freedom and wider 
life. Will free life uses for its worth while it is. 
Man finds first worth of life, purposed to find that 
worth through wise use of life's free will. Then for 
life worthy will, man of earth, for by your will free, 
the free will you will use for life beyond earth, 
must life find freedom. 

The worth of life which man finds wins for life 
personal the wider life which Will Higher pur- 
poses. Then man wins by his will for life wor- 



Worth of Life in Man 187 

thy the wider life which God purposes for life im- 
mortal. When by man's wise use of his free will 
life wins the worth God purposes, life purposed 
wider life finds wider life. Man wills that life find 
wider life then using his free personal will. That 
life who wins wider life is the personal life of man. 
What help from this thought ! We who have won 
the wider life would teach men to think wisely. 
The worth which man wills himself wins for the 
life personal the wider personal life which God 
purposes. 

Man who wins life worthy has won for life per- 
sonal the higher life of freedom. What help in 
this thought! What power would win personal 
life's worth but the free will of man? What life 
would become worthy forced? Will Higher pur- 
poses for life that it be life personal; the life per- 
sonal finds wider life ; that life while it is man finds 
worth for higher life. That worth must be found 
by the free will of life personal. Think, who would 
find the higher life. Will for it now, purpose for 
it now; to-day life wills for wider life if it wishes. 
Think, man who is life purposed wider life. Re- 
member, your will must win it. 

Will Higher, who purposes for life while it is, 
wills that life find freedom by its own will firmly 
used. Then that worth man himself finds. But 
when man wills unworthiness life finds not the free- 



188 Man's Life of Purpose 

dom which Will Higher purposes that life must 
finally find. When man wins freedom he wins the 
higher life of personal self. The personal self wills 
man's worth. Life of man, though working and 
willing for man, is working and willing also for 
worth that wins freedom. Then the life personal 
finds freedom working and purposing for that 
worth which is man's worth. 

When life of man finds worth, that life finds 
freedom. What worth frees life? Man's personal 
worth. The life personal finds higher life. Won 
by man is that worth which brings freedom. Yet 
man needs help when he finds purpose weak. That 
help he may have through prayer to God, honest 
prayer. Honest prayer is prayer that life win for 
itself its worth, for that God purposes. Prayer 
honest then, is prayer with work to be and do that 
which the life asks help to be and do. When prayer 
thus asks God's help, His help life finds always. 

Purpose Higher, whose will life fulfills finally, 
wills for that life free purpose its own. Man is the 
life for worth purposed, yet he is free life, not 
bound. Then man may purpose well or ill using 
the purpose which finally fulfills God's purpose. 
But man wills for life worthy finally, wills for life 
wider then, for life made has the purpose of its 
Maker to obey. Yet life is free, not bound. O 
God, help men to understand this word for help. 



Worth of Life in Man 189 

That life find worth for the higher life of free- 
dom while it is man on earth God purposes. That 
life find wider life happy He wills. Worth won in 
man helps life freed. Wider worth life finds while 
it is, by that Purpose who wills that life find first 
worth in man. What food for thought here, O man 
who purposes now! What food for wise think- 
ing you have from freed life! Work for firm pur- 
pose, man of earth; purpose firmly now; each day 
helps toward freedom when you firmly use your 
free purpose. 

That will by which life finds worth for wider life 
is, while life wills on earth, man's will; that pur- 
pose which finds worth for freedom is man's pur- 
pose. That thought will help, we hope. Man finds 
himself the firm will and purpose which win free- 
dom. 

The life wills while it is man for the wider life, 
but will is wholly free. That free will which life 
uses while it works and wills for man is the will 
which life uses when freed. Will for worth life 
finds finally, for that which life's Maker purposes 
life made fulfills ; yet will for worth is wholly free. 
When by free will life wins worth for freedom life 
finds that will help for wider life; when by that free 
will man wills but unworthiness the life wills still 
in man. What will have you, O man? We who 
would help you tell this word. Think, O man. 



190 Man's Life of Purpose 

That life find worth for wider life while it wills 
in man God purposes. That self personal find that 
worth by free will He purposes. His purpose life 
finally fulfills, for that which Higher Will pur- 
poses the life made by Him must fulfill. Then 
what man wins the worth for wider fuller life? 
That man who finds firm purpose; that man who 
chooses worth of life, firmly willing; that man wins 
wider life. What thought for help here! Firm 
purpose, which man finds when he wishes, frees 
life from earth. Firm purpose man finds himself. 

Will free of life personal wins for that life the 
personal worth which Will Higher purposes for 
life personal. That power man uses to win the 
personal worth of life of man then. That power 
which life has from God fulfills His purpose. 
What word for help this is, O men! We who 
live the wider life of freedom would win men to 
wise thought. This for men will be help if they 
think. May our thought help many, we pray God. 

What worth frees life? Man's worth. That life 
win in man the life worthy Purpose Higher wills. 
Then you who will that your life be worthy fulfill 
the purpose of your God. What will has man? 
The free will of life personal. When you will for 
worth life finds worth. You make life worthy 
wider life by your will. Work for life, O man; 
work this time that life find freedom; purpose 



Worth of Life in Man 191 

worth each day; will that this life find the worth 

that wins freedom. You win that purpose finally, 

why not this time? Think, man who has life to 

free, think well. 

Will Higher wills for life of man. His purpose 

will be finally fulfilled by life while it is man. But 

that will which He makes free fulfills the higher 

purpose of man's Maker. For that will which man 

knows may be weak His help He gives when the 

man honestly asks that help. For life worthy man 

purposes finally, yet many men will for the one 

life. Many times man may will weakly, but man, 

the life immortal, finds will for life worthy, and by 

that will becomes worthy wider life. But what 

man finds he wills himself. Then firm purpose is 
found by life when the man wills to find it. What 

for life wills the man of now? As he wishes, he 
finds firm purpose which frees life immortal from 
earth, or weak purpose which keeps life weak, un- 
worthy life freed. Man of free purpose, think. 

Purpose Higher wills for life while it is. Man 
whose will fulfills God's purpose lives the life pur- 
posed to teach wisdom in use of free will. Purpose 
Higher rules life while it is. Life finds worth freely 
willing while it is, yet life wills of free will by 
God's purpose. His purpose life fulfills, taught as 
He purposes life be taught, through life and work 
of man. God purposes; all life that he made ful- 



192 Man's Life of Purpose 

fills His purpose. While that life is free, using free 
will it fulfills God's purpose, must thus fulfill it, 
for He made life for worth and made it free in will. 

Will free life uses to find the worth that by 
God's purpose life must. Will free helps life when 
thus well used. That power is purposed to be help 
for life. But will free, when weakly or wickedly 
used harms life. That Purpose who follows life 
while it is follows life which wills wickedly, helping 
that life to find wisdom. Free though life is, 
God's purpose it must obey. Finally will wicked 
becomes will for worth. Life wills for worth be- 
cause it must then? Yes, for that life is made for 
worth, and finally the free will becomes the help 
it is purposed to be. For life wicked God wills 
penalty of further man's life, but teaches that life 
surely. Finally for life which must find worth 
for itself the teaching of man's life becomes the 
help God wills, and life free in will fulfills God's 
purpose, taught by life of man. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life which He made 
fulfills, helps that life when it is weak. His pur- 
pose life fulfills then by the help of its Maker. 
When life weakens in purpose, when life wills 
weakly, prayer honest is unfailing help. Think, 
man who would find firm purpose, think well. 

Will for life worthy man finds through help of 
prayer. When life prays honestly for will firm 



Worth of Life in Man 193 

God helps that life. When prayer wins His help 
life finds firm will for life worthy. Think, who 
would find that will; you find it helped by God 
if you pray honestly. But prayer, to win His help, 
must be honest. Willing firmly then for that worth 
which frees life, praying for help to firm will, life 
wins His help, for He promises His help to life 
who asks Him. 

Purpose Higher rules life. Purpose Higher? 
Whose purpose rules free personal life? God's 
wise purpose. What! Has life free purpose its 
own, yet is it bound by Higher Purpose? Yes, 
Higher Purpose governs life that He made man 
for earth. His purpose, which is unwavering, helps 
life which He made to find the worth which that 
life must find. Will of life is free, purpose of life 
is free, yet the higher purpose of life's Maker gov- 
erns that life while it is. Life finds finally that worth 
which God purposes, using the free purpose given 
it by God, thus fulfilling, as God wills, His higher 
purpose. 

Will for life worthy man finds himself. When 
by will well used life finds worth for freedom man 
has won that freedom. Will for life worthy this 
man may find. For that will purpose this time, 
man who would win life worthy. Will free wins 
the wider life. Think well, man who has life to 
free. 



194 Man's Life of Purpose 

Will Higher, man's Maker, purposes while the 
life wills on earth that it find worth for life wider. 
Man wills for himself that worth. Will for life 
worthy life is purposed, but for that will life pur- 
poses itself. Weak is life w T hen man is weak, firm 
the life when man is firm. Heed the word, man 
who has weak purpose. While life free to purpose 
as it wishes weakly purposes, life remains man. 
Think, man who has life to free, think well. 



WISE LIFE BECOMES THROUGH 
GOD'S TEACHING 



WISE LIFE BECOMES THROUGH GOD's TEACHING 



Dr. Coulter. 



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ILL Higher, life's Maker, wills for 
life that wisdom which life finds 
through man's work of earth. Will 
Higher wills for life wider wisdom 



than it finds while it is man. Will Higher makes 
life of man immortal life. While that life wills in 
man He teaches it wisdom. Full of meaning this 
word for men. Wise life becomes through God's 
teaching; wise life becomes through the willed life 
of man; wise life has become when God frees it 
from earth. Free of purpose, willed worth found 
of free purpose, life while it wills in man learns 
that wise use of purpose which helps freed life. 
Wise free purpose God teaches the life while it is 
man, purpose that life takes to wider life. Wise 
free purpose won, God frees life from man. Then 
the teaching which life finds in man He who pur- 
poses for life forever makes help when life wins 
freedom. Wise life, taught by God's teaching, 
wills for life worthy while it is. Man finds the firm 
free purpose by which life wins its worth forever. 



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198 Man's Life of Purpose 

Wilberforce. 

Will Higher, life's Maker, wills that life in man 
find firm purpose. That firm purpose wins free- 
dom for the life from earth. That firm purpose 
life takes to wider work in freedom from earth. 
Found by life while it is man is the firm, wise, free 
purpose by which life wins its worth to eternity. 
Taught is life by the work of man wisdom in use 
of free purpose. Wise life finds the wider life, wise 
life free in purpose, not bound but taught, finds 
wider, fuller life. 

Miltiades. 

Will Higher, whose purpose life fulfills, pur- 
poses that firm purpose life find while it works the 
man's work. Then that work He purposes to be 
teaching for life itself. Man wills how his life 
works. Then for firm purpose man wills if he 
chooses. Think, who would find wider life. 

Firm, wise, free purpose wins for life its worth 
while it is. Man finds firm wise purpose by God's 
teaching. Then life finds it by the teaching which 
He purposes it have while it is man. Freed life 
uses while it is the firm purpose won while it was 
man. 



XI 

HELPFUL THOUGHT 



HELPFUL THOUGHT 



Dr. Coulter. 

WILL Higher was when life made 
was not. That Higher Will was 
man's Maker. Then life of man be- 
comes made life, willed its being by 
Higher Will. Man then who wills has from 
Higher Will his will, yet man wills that which he 
wishes. What from this the word for men? The 
life finite, willed life, has from its Maker that which 
fulfills the purpose of its Maker. Willed life finite, 
willed free will, life finite by finite free will ful- 
fills the purpose of Infinite God. That for philoso- 
phy is a needed thought. 

Will free, that power of life personal which man 
finds help when he wishes, is made man's power by 
the will of his Maker. When man uses that power 
for worth life personal wins wider life; when man 
uses that power unworthily man wins for his life 
but man's work again. We who work the wider 
work of freed life know the help which life finds 

through firm will free. Man uses free will well or 

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202 Man's Life of Purpose 

ill as he wishes, but when he wills weakly for work 
or for life worthy his life finds but man's life and 
work again. Man who would find wider life, think. 
We who know tell this for your help. 

Man the life immortal, who has for help the pow- 
ers of life immortal, has for his must to fulfill by 
his own use of those powers the purpose of Him 
who made him life. His purpose, free while he 
works life's earth work, free then while he lives 
man's life, wins finally the purposed worth for 
wider, fuller life. When life finds the fuller life 
man has won it. Then purpose well, man who has 
life to free, purpose firmly. Work finished well 
teaches firm purpose, work finished well helps life. 
When life finds wider life work is wider; but the 
power which freed the life will still be the free 
power which must win life's worth. Have we 
helped you, man who works life's work? You work 
for wider fuller life when, purposing firmly, you 
finish well man's work. The purpose you make 
firm helps wider life. Think then, man who has 
life to free, think well. 



XII 

FINAL WORD 



FINAL WORD 



Dr. Coulter. 

WILL Higher, man's Maker, life's 
Wilier, wills for the life made by 
Him while that life is. While that 
life purposes His purpose follows 
it, teaching it wisdom in use of free purpose. What 
has life from Him for help? Teaching while it 
works in man, teaching in wider life, teaching 
through which the life finds wisdom. Wider life 
firmly purposes, for the firm free purpose which 
helps life forever was won while the life was man. 
Think, man who purposes for life. You find that 
firm purpose which helps wider life if you will. 
Would the Higher Purpose free the life who is 
unready for freedom? But that firm purpose He 
wills that life while it is man shall find. Then what 
from this follows? Wise use of free purpose the 
life in man finally finds. Though this man weakly 
purposes, that firm purpose which God wills for 
life is found by the life in man. While this man 
purposes it may be found; then this man may, if 

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206 Man's Life of Purpose 

he thus wills, find for life firm purpose which helps 
life forever. Man purposes for life of earth; God 
purposes for life to eternity. 

Full of meaning for men is the word we tell. 
Higher purpose for life is fulfilled by will of free 
life; will free wins life's first worth; will free wins 
life's worth forever; free is life's will while it is man 
and forever; man works life's first work; man wins 
life's first worth. Help men to understand, we 
pray Thee, O God. 

We, the lives freed, who live the wider life pur- 
posed for life of man, would help men to win this 
life. We tell helpful words. They tell of man the 
worker for life wider, of man the life who himself 
makes his life worthy wider life, of man the wilier, 
free to will as he chooses, yet as life fulfilling surely 
the purpose of his Mak,er. When man wills for 
life wider his will wins the life wider. Heed the 
word, man of free will. We know that we tell 
truth. The word we give to men they will find 
helpful if they think. May the word help many, 
we pray God. 



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